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Building materials and decay assessment of the Gerace Cathedral (Reggio Calabria, Southern Italy)
2023
A multi-analytical approach was employed for the first time to study the stone materials, wall paintings and related degradation forms in the Cathedral of Gerace (Reggio Calabria, southern Italy). With an area of around 1898 square meters, the Gerace Cathedral is the largest in Calabria: its construction dates back to the Norman era (between 1085 and 1120), and currently displays distinct features of Greek and Latin architectural orders. Despite having undergone numerous restorations, the church perfectly preserves its original buildings materials. Following an extensive site inspection campaign, supported by the experts dealing with building restoration, several areas were selected for ana…
Glossing wind names in Low German in Salisbury? A newly discovered text in London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.xii
2018
It's an essay investigating a text on the names of the winds in ms London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.xii (s. xi), where both Latin and vernacular names are given. The text may ultimately derive from Einhard's Life of Charlemagne (ch. 29), but it appears as a self-contained text in the form of a Class Glossary. Although inserted in a manuscript copied in England at Salisbury, the vernacular words of the text are not in Old English. The essay makes a case for a possible connection with Flanders, with the text being one of the very rare surviving specimen of the Old Low Franconian language.
L’apparato effimero allestito nella cattedrale di Palermo per le cerimonie funebri di Carlo III di Borbone (1789): storia e rappresentazione digitale
2022
The paper focus on the ephemeral apparatus realized by the architect Salvatore Attinelli on the occasion of the funeral of Charles III of Bourbon, to be set up inside the cathedral of Palermo, in those years affected by a total internal modernization based on the project commissioned in 1767 to Ferdinando Fuga. This apparatus, in an article published by the academic Giuseppina Leone in 2001, was considered an alternative project to the proposal of Ferdinando Fuga, considered expensive and with a language not responding to the rules of good and modern architecture. The purpose of this paper is to reinforce the hypothesis of an apparatus having design purposes, and to verify its feasibility t…
Antonello Gagini and the "majestic machina marmorea" of the Cathedral of Palermo, Italy, in the "Gagino redivivo" by Vincenzo Auria
2022
The paper examines the description of the tribune of the Cathedral of Palermo by Antonello Gagini published in Gagino redivivo by Vincenzo Auria, contextualizing it with other sources related to the monument, both written and iconographic. Auria's detailed description, together with the latter, has allowed a complete reconstruction of the tribune and of its iconographic programme.
Les " mausolées " de Salone et de Split
2012
Although abbot Martin is supposed to have collected and brought it all to Rome, as pope John IV had asked him to, the relics of salonitan martyrs are venerated since the Early Middle Ages in Split cathedral, settled in the octagon of Diocletian’s Palace, in the ager of Salona, former capital of Roman Dalmatia. Both main martyrs of the ancient city, first bishop Domnio and Anastasius fullonicus, are the medieval patrons of the cathedral beside Virgin Mary. Anastasius had previously been buried in a private mausoleum on the necropolis of Marusinac - mausoleum which gave birth to a pilgrimage ecclesial complex including a basilica gemina. Having first looked for graves ad sanctos at Manastirin…
Urban Landscape in the Graphic Representations of the Cathedral of Palermo
2017
The present study offers some reflections on the relationship between the cathedral of Palermo and the urban area in which it insists, regarding the indissoluble link with the landscape aspect that through the history offered a variety of perceptive suggestions, marked by the passage and presence of different dominations. The cognitive storytelling of the cathedral of Palermo is obtained through a graphic study on routes which provided of multiple images keeping the scar of time in the elaboration of orographic sections and perspective views and highlighting the role of perception in this changing combination of architecture and landscape.
Le diocèse de Salerne au Moyen Âge : dynamiques historiques et organisation de l’espace - The Diocese of Salerne in the Middle Ages: Historical Dynam…
2015
In the middle ages, particularly between the 10th – 14th centuries, the Diocese of Salerno was among the most important ones in southern Italy. Its earliest records date back to the late 5th century and during the 10th it was elevated to archdiocese; so the city of Salerno became the center of a large diocese, among the largest of Southern Italy. This essay reconstructs the history of diocese and its public symbols (like the cathedral), demonstrating consistency with that of other Italian dioceses but, at the same time, also highlighting some specifi city resulting from more general historical dynamics of Salerno and the role it played in the southern part of Italy.
Il duomo di Monreale nel tardo Medioevo: condizioni, fondi e interventi tra re, papi e arcivescovi (1329-1409)
2019
After the Sicilian Vespers, the Cathedral of Monreale was neglected because of the to lack of funds, due to the war between the Angevins and the Aragonese. In the 14th century the inhabitans of Palermo, popes and kings pointed out that the wonderful church built by William II was in bad condition, and they were afraid it would collapse. The funds for the restoration were not enough, because the archbishopric had to pay high royal and papal levies. The Chiaromonte, lords of Palermo, controlled Monreale and the assets of the diocese were administered by knights, merchants, and notaries of Palermo. Moreover marammieri, carpenters and masons engaged in the renovation work came from Palermo. In …
Pareri, dispute e dibattiti nel cantiere del Duomo di Milano XIV-XVI secolo
2017
The «600th anniversary of the consultation on the construction of the Cathedral of Girona» can provide a good opportunity to review the studies and documents relating to the many debates surrounding the use of stone masonry in Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano) between the 14th and 15th centuries–the object of research of many scholars who have bequeathed pages of great significance for the history of architecture on the late Gothic and Renaissance periods. Without aiming to make a comprehensive study, and basing our work especially on the enormous documentary compendium Annali della Fabbrica del Duomo dalle origini siano al presente. 1877-1885., we have sought to interpret the data, which l…
Il piccolo nel grande, il grande nel piccolo. Gli adeguamenti liturgici di Culotta e Leone The small in the big, the big in the small. Culotta and Le…
2015
Una esplorazione degli adeguamenti liturgici di Pasquale Culotta e Giuseppe Leone conduce a comprendere in che modo la loro riflessione sulle architetture per il culto cristiano cattolico sia parte integrante della sperimentazione progettuale incentrata sul rapporto architettura-città. Nel saggio si specifica in cosa consista il lavoro di adeguamento rispetto alle indicazioni formulate nel Concilio Ecumenico Vaticano II (1963). Ci si sofferma sulle peculiarità della liturgia rinnovata: il valore "processionale" dello spazio ecclesiale e la relazione immanente-trascendente, a scala architettonica e urbana. In seguito si approfondiscono, "caso per caso", la riconfigurazione dell'ambone del Du…