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The project will be published as a monograph at the end of the first five years. In the mean time, interim reports are published both online and as articles. For a bibliography of Villa Magna, see Bibliography.
Rapporto del rilievo topografico 2006 / Survey 2006
Rapporto preliminare di risultati del rilievo topografico, 2007. Brief synopsis of results of topographic survey, 2006.
Excavations at Villa Magna 2006, FOLD&R:68
In June and early July a campaign of excavation and geophysical survey was carried out at the site of Villa Magna. In spite of the fact that the villa is mentioned in two letters from Marcus Aurelius to his tutor, Fronto (iv.5), and on a well-known inscription recording the paving of a road from Anagni to the villa (CIL X, 5909, A..D. 207), the site had never been the subject of scientific investigation. Over the northern sector of the villa was built the monastery of S. Pietro di Villamagna, mentioned in documents from the tenth century onwards. Of this, a Romanesque church and a line of 15th century fortifications are still visible.