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New discoveries in the gallery of the Baths of Trajan on the Oppian hill
Awards: Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Economist. Reviews: Kirkus (2.2020), Publishers Weekly (4.2020), Library Journal (5.2020), BookList (5.2020), The Wall Street Journal (5.2020), Boston Globe (6.4.2020), The Economist (6.20.2020),... more
Au matin du 6 mai 1527, les troupes impériales de Charles Quint commandées par Charles III de Bourbon envahissent Rome et commettent des violences inouïes durant des semaines. Pour une bonne partie des soldats, les fameux Lansquenets... more
This book deals with the fate of one of the oldest and largest tangible remains of ancient Rome: the fourth century BCE city wall, incorporated in the city's symbol of modernity, the central train station of Termini. Through a... more
Il testo costituisce l'esito di un percorso dialogico ispirato al metodo della democrazia deliberativa, con la partecipazione, in quattro audizioni, di interlocutori qualificati di diversa estrazione e provenienza. A partire dall'analisi... more
Cet ouvrage raconte l’incroyable histoire du citoyen romain le plus célèbre du Moyen Âge, Cola di Rienzo (1313-1354). Homme instruit et brillant, il subjugue les foules par de beaux discours, rêve de rendre Rome à son antique gloire et... more
È opinione comune, presso gli studiosi moderni, che i giudici privati del processo civile romano (giudici monocratici o recuperatores) appartenessero alle classi sociali più elevate e più colte e che mantenessero, nel ricoprire il loro... more
Caracalla. A Military Biography is now available as a hardcover, Kindle and e-book an from the website of its publisher Pen & Sword Publishing and from most of the major booksellers. It is not only the first published biography in... more
Questo libro è la riedizione aggiornata e arricchita di una precedente monografia apparsa nel 1999. Un più ampio apparato iconografico e nuovi documenti corredano il testo, mentre ciascun capitolo è accompagnato da un Post-Scriptum nel... more
Creating Severan Rome: The Architecture and Politics of L. Septimius Severus (AD 193 – 211) examines the topography of Severan Rome and its role in Severus' political agenda. Although some elements reflect the emperor's concern for... more
The Seven Hills of Rome are on the east of the Tiber in the heart of the Ancient City and are said to be the origins of the empire. Back in the day (there is proof of civilization on the hills from as early as 1,000BC) the seven hills... more
Rom im Wandel der Zeit. Skizzierung von drei Erinnerungskulturen, die sich positiv wie negativ mit der ewigen Stadt auseinandersetzen. "Rom Erinnerungsort 2012 - Band 2 Das Haus Europa". Matheus, Michael: Rom. In: Europäische... more
Well before the Risorgimento’s cult of heroes took a flight, sculptor Antonio Canova commissioned a series of busts of ‘illustrious Italians’ for the ancient Pantheon in Rome. Started in 1809, when Rome was under French control, the... more
La comparsa al tempo di Alessandro VI di nuovi interessi per l’area ai piedi del Gianicolo, compresa fra l’antico abitato del Trastevere e il Borgo Vaticano, e soprattutto l’importante impresa di rettificazione del tracciato viario della... more
Medieval tomb slabs have aroused, during the Modern Age, a varied interest (of historical, genealogical, epigraphic, antiquarian nature), which found in Rome one of its main centres. The paper deals with the most important steps of this... more
The author offers a reconstruction of the lost triptych painted by Giovenale da Orvieto in 1441 for the Mancini chapel in Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome. He bases this on two sources: the description of the work in a treatise on the cult... more
An unedited tour in the Emperor Nero's house that has been recently re-opened to the public
This paper explores the circulation and spread of certain compositional models developed in Rome by the mid-Seventeenth century in Lombard sculpture of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. The examples belong to sculptors gravitating... more
Dall’osservazione dello spazio urbano della città di Roma, effettuato fra gennaio 2011 e giugno 2012, sono stati censiti e documentati 247 graffiti. Ciò che viene presentato in questo saggio è una prima analisi tematica del materiale... more
Joannes Leo Africanus, (c. 1494 – c. 1554?) (or al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, Arabic:حسن ابن محمد الوزان الفاسي) was an Andalusian Amazigh Moorish diplomat and author who is best known for his book Descrittione dell’Africa... more
This chapter proposes a new reading of Jerome’s Letter 107, which is addressed to the aristocratic Christian matron Laeta and offers advice on how to bring up her daughter. It argues that the educational prescriptions of this letter are... more