BONI, GIACOMO (1859-1925), Italian archaeologist and classical scholar, was born in Venice April 25 1859. He entered the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated as an architect, after which he studied practical mechanics in England. On returning to Venice he became assistant in the work of restor ing the Ducal Palace, and in 1888 inspector of fine arts in Rome. Ten years later he undertook the excavations in the Forum and the Palatine with which his name is chiefly associated. He also erected the Museo Forense in the church of Santa Francisca Romana. In 1914 he undertook excavations on the Palatine. Boni was made Senator in 1923 by Sig. Mussolini. He was the author of a large number of essays, pamphlets and articles on archaeological and kindred subjects and also on botany. He died in Rome July 7 1925.