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Born at Casale in Piedmont, he became professor of architecture at Turin, and his most important works were the excavation of Tusculum in 1829 and of the Appian Way in 1848, the results of which he embodied in a number of works published in a costly form by his patroness, the queen of Sardinia .

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica