Help! Giuseppe Maggi

[rustypickup]

Hey all,

I'm new here and not sure whether this is the right place to put my query, so I apologise in advance if it's not.

 

I am currently in my final year of school in Australia, and doing research on the significance of Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Maggi. I've found it exceedingly hard to find much information relating to him. From what I know, he discovered skeletons down by the beach at Herculaneum, effectively disproving the theory that everyone managed to escape after the eruption of Vesuvius. Unfortunately, my task isn't quite as simple as just knowing that.

 

I just want to make it clear that in no way am I asking for assistance in actually completing/writing the task, as that would technically be cheating! I am just enquiring as to whether anyone knows some useful sources related to Giuseppe Maggi, whether they be journal articles, books, videos etc, anything to help me do my research that I may have overlooked.

 

Thanks guys, and apologies again if this isn't in the right place.

[Nephele]

Hello, Rustypickup. I see what you mean about it being exceedingly hard to find much information relating to Giuseppe Maggi. If your public or university library can interloan for you a circa 1983 edition of Sutter's Who's Who in Italy, that may be of some help. Barring that, if you already happen to know the university with which Dr. Maggi was affiliated, I would suggest contacting them directly for information.

 

In the meantime, if you have access either to old issues of National Geographic Magazine or the CD-ROM version of Nat'l Geo, you'll find a nice color picture of Dr. Maggi (holding a skull) on page 688 of the December 1982 issue. The title of the article is "A Buried Roman Town Gives Up Its Dead".

 

-- Nephele

[rustypickup]

Hello, Rustypickup. I see what you mean about it being exceedingly hard to find much information relating to Giuseppe Maggi. If your public or university library can interloan for you a circa 1983 edition of Sutter's Who's Who in Italy, that may be of some help. Barring that, if you already happen to know the university with which Dr. Maggi was affiliated, I would suggest contacting them directly for information.

 

In the meantime, if you have access either to old issues of National Geographic Magazine or the CD-ROM version of Nat'l Geo, you'll find a nice color picture of Dr. Maggi (holding a skull) on page 688 of the December 1982 issue. The title of the article is "A Buried Roman Town Gives Up Its Dead".

 

-- Nephele

 

 

Thanks a lot for that Nephele. Luckily we've got a massive collection of national geographic magazines at home so I can look through them, but I might e-mail National Georgaphic as well to see if they can shed any light on the topic.

 

Once again thanks a heap for the help.. any information is valuable on this subject!