Career
Giglioli was a student of and assistant to both Emanuel Löwy and Rodolfo Lanciani. He fought in World War I, during which time he published the newly discovered statue of Apollo from Veii in 1916. In the post-war years he held positions at the Università di Roma, beginning in 1923.
There he served as professor of ancient topography as well as classical art history.
In the field he excavated Etruscan sites and also worked on the Fascist projects in Rome, notably the excavations of the Forum of Augustus and the Mausoleum of Augustus. Among his students was Massimo Pallottino, who would pioneer Etruscan studies as an academic discipline.
