Editing Fasti (section)

====Discovery====
The ''fasti consulares'' were discovered as 30 marble fragments in the forum. With them were 26 fragments of ''Acta Triumpharum'', since called the ''fasti triumphales''. Both lists were restored as distinct records. The restoration was based nearly entirely on the observations of [[Onofrio Panvinio]] and [[Pirro Ligorio]], who were standing at the top of the trench in which a portion of wall was showing, featuring inscriptional material between [[pilaster]]s. They conferred with Michelangelo. [[Pope Paul III]] had authorized the mining of stone for St. Peter's in 1540 and Michelangelo was in fact protestingly working on its design also. The pope was following the widespread convention that prevailed in the Renaissance of ripping up the structures of the past to reuse in building structures they considered even more magnificent. The scholars were collaborating to save what they could.

A resident colony of quarrymen did not pause in the slightest but went on dismantling buildings. All trace of structures in that part of the forum vanished between August 15 and September 14, 1546. The stone was sold to cutters for reuse or to lime burners for the creation of cement. None of these proceedings were in any way archaeological. Cardinal Farnese assigned the scholars to watch the diggings. Collecting a team they moved swiftly to rescue what they could, sinking tunnels to the side to search for fragments. Subsequently, more fragments turned up embedded in buildings then in use, showing that the area had been less intensely mined previously, and casting doubt of the location of the original source of the fragments.<ref>{{cite book|title=New Tales of Old Rome 1899–1901|first=Rodolfo Amadeo|last=Lanciani|chapter=Chapter 2: The New Discoveries of the Sacra Via|publisher=Templeton Foundation Press|orig-year=1899|chapter-url=http://www.giffordlectures.org/Browse.asp?PubID=TPNTOR&Volume=0&Issue=0&ArticleID=4|date=1997–2009|access-date=2009-09-03|archive-date=2011-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614103137/http://www.giffordlectures.org/Browse.asp?PubID=TPNTOR&Volume=0&Issue=0&ArticleID=4|url-status=dead}}</ref>

It has been estimated that the consular lists were in four entablatures several feet high: I covering AUC 1-364; II, 365-461; III, 462-600; IV, 601-745, running to 766 in the margin. They were not published, however, as two lists; instead, Marliani in 1549 (first publication, Rome), Sigonius in 1550 (Modena), Robortelli in 1555 (Venice) and others chose to combine the information into a unified list, which was carried forward under the name ''fasti capitolini''. The editors took certain freedoms, such as filling in missing magistrates from other records as they thought best and filling in missing dates AUC to give the appearance of a continuous yearly chronicle, at the same time concealing the problems. Typically representations under the name ''capitolini'' are not that. There were in fact two different original lists placed under that name to which were added fragments found in 1816-1818, 1872–1878 and a final one from the [[Tiber river]] in 1888, unrestored.<ref name=sandys168-171>{{cite book|title=Latin Epigraphy: An Introduction to the Study of Latin Inscriptions|first=John Edwin |last=Sandys|pages=168–171|location=Chicago|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|year=1927|isbn=0-89005-062-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Introduction to the study of Latin inscriptions|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.153528|first=James Chidester |last=Egbert|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.153528/page/n376 362]|publisher=American Book Company|location=New York, Cincinnati, Chicago|year=1896}}</ref> All the fragments became [[Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum|CIL]] I under ''Fragmenta Quae Dicuntur Capitolini'', "Fragments Called Capitolini" and ''Cetera Quae Supersunt Fragmenta'', "Other Remaining Fragments."