Background
Luigi Canina was born on October 23, 1795 at Casale in Piedmont, Italy.
Luigi Canina was born on October 23, 1795 at Casale in Piedmont, Italy.
Luigi Canina was a pupil of Ferdinando Bonsignore in Turin, and settled in Rome in 1818.
Luigi Canina became professor of architecture at Turin, and his most important works were the excavation of Tusculum in 1829 and of the Appian Way in 1848, the results of which he embodied in a number of works published in a costly form by his patroness, the queen of Sardinia. .
