“Freund und Lehrer … Helfer und Berather”: sui rapporti tra Giovanni Battista de Rossi e gli ‘amici tedeschi’ tra Roma e Berlino

By supporting the idea of “una fratellanza nelle investigazioni scientifiche, che non conosce diversità di nazioni ed aborre da gare meschine”, Giovanni Battista de Rossi was at the heart of an extensive network of relations between Italian and European scholars. In particular, he kept close ties with some of the most distinguished representatives of the German Altertumswissenschaft and his collaboration with institutions such as the Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica and the Prussian Academy of Sciences was especially fruitful. An inquiry among documents and correspondence mostly unpublished will make it possible to further explore some aspects of de Rossi’s relationship with his “amici tedeschi” and to highlight the value and international scope of his activity