Marisa Ranieri Panetta, archaeologist, has long contributed to scientific outreach in l’Espresso and specialised journals. Author of historical and archival research and curator of conferences, she has received international awards such as “Media Save Art” (Iccrom–Unesco, 1997), “Theodor Mommsen” (2002), and “Corrado Alvaro” (2014). Her works include Nerone. Il principe rosso, Vesuvius, Le donne di Augusto, Messalina e la Roma imperiale dei suoi tempi, Le donne che fecero l’impero.

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• PREFACE (Stefano De Caro, Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, Valeria Sampaolo)INTRODUCTION (Marisa Ranieri Panetta)THE DISCOVERY AND HISTORY OF POMPEII (Pietro Giovanni Guzzo)PUBLIC LIFE (Elio Lo Cascio)RELIGIOUS LIFE (Stefania Adamo Muscettola)COMMERCIAL LIFE (Eliodoro Savino, Marina Taliercio, Antonio Varone)PRIVATE LIFE (Alfredina Storchi Marino, Marisa Ranieri Panetta, Antonio Varone, Antonio D’Ambrosio)LIFESTYLES (Ernesto De Carolis, Stefania Adamo Muscettola, Valeria Sampaolo, Annamaria Ciarallo)OPLONTIS (Stefano De Caro)MOUNT VESUVIUS AND THE ERUPTION (Antonio Varone, Ernesto De Carolis)CHRONOLOGY (Marisa Raniera Panetta)GLOSSARYBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX