Fondo Gioia Conta

Biography
Born in Bolzano, she attended the city’s Liceo classico (Grammar School) “G. Carducci”. In 1970 she obtained her University degree in classical archaeology at the University in Florence. Her cooperation with the Istituto Geografico Militare (Military Geographical Institute) and with Gen. Prof. Giulio Schmiedt is testified by the publication entitled Il livello antico del mar Tirreno. Testimonianze dei resti archeologici (The Ancient Level of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Evidence of Archaeological Findings).

In 1972 she began working with the CNR (National Research Council) in studying the city of Asculum, in the Piceno area, whereby a great quantity of data was collected, The author has the merit of establishing the Roman borders through thorough and scrupulous work, of examining archaeological documents, and of preserving the archaeological remains of many sites on the ancient via Salaria and in the Piceno area.

In the same period she obtained a post as a teacher of history of art at the Liceo classico Carducci, where she taught for a number of years before starting working in 1975 at the University of Pisa, where she obtained the chair of historic geography of the ancient world in 1979, at the Istituto di Scienze Geografiche (Geography Institute). In 1981 she became a researcher at the Istituto di Storia Antica (Ancient History Institute) of that University and in 1985 she became associate professor at the Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico (Department of Historic Sciences of the Ancient World), where she continued teaching until her untimely death.

She kept very strong ties to her native region and wrote several articles for the daily “Alto Adige” on the art heritage of our region.

In the 1980s and 1990s she worked passionately at the drafting of a series of five volumes, entitled Alto Adige. I luoghi dell’Arte (South Tyrol. The Places of Art).

In the last period of her life, she devoted herself to the making of cultural audiovisuals on South Tyrol.

She edited several scientific and academic publications as well as popular cultural works.