ANDREA PALLADIO [alias GIOVANNI TARCAGNOTA], L’antichità di Roma, Venetia, Pagan, 1554,

The Ph.D dissertation studies the Antiquities of Rome (L’Antichità di Roma) ed-ited in three editions by Maffio Pagan in Venice and Vincenzio Lucrino in Rome at the same 1554. The works are always assigned to Andrea Palladio, the most famous Renaissance architect. However, in 1997, were published on line some manuscripts by Pirro Ligorio served in Turin State Archive that fix instead that the true writer wasn’t Palladio but Giovanni Tarcagnota, a scholar author himself, with the pseudonym of Lucio Fauno, of sev-eral Antiquities of Rome printed from 1548 to 1552. With a cladistic approach to the printing editions written by Tarcagnota and a philological exam of the text, of its ancient and modern sources and of its following editions we can prove all ligorian reasons demonstrating our hypothesis.