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Repository	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark
Ref No	RCS/SJW/MUS/1/1/3
Title	Letter from Giovanni Battista de Rossi [?] of Rome to Daniel Rock
Date	2 November 1868
Level	Item
Description	In Italian - needs translation Includes envelope. [de Rossi was born in Rome, he applied the sciences of archaeology and epigraphy, and leveraged his thorough knowledge of the topography of Rome, not to mention the resources of the Vatican Library, where he was employed cataloguing manuscripts. These skills he brought to Early Christian sites and guided the development of a new field, Christian archaeology. He travelled widely, knew all the museum collections intimately and was at the centre of a network of professional friendships with all the European scholars of his fields.]

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