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Immagini del Sacro Monte di Varallo: Autorappresentazione e controllo del territorio (1606–40)

The article examines three engravings, depicting the Sacro Monte (Holy Mountain) at Varallo, one of the main sanctuaries of Northern Italy in the early Modern Age. Between 1606 and 1640, when the engravings were made, the Sacro Monte was the scene of continuous quarrels between the local patricians, also known as “vicini”, and the community of Franciscan friars, responsible for the religious life on the Sacro Monte. Both the “vicini” and the friars strived to control the Sacro Monte, because ...

"Non ho mai strillato tanto in vita mia!" Marcello Piacentini e la ricostruzione del Palazzo della Ragione di Ferrara (1946-1957)

This essay retraces the history of the Palazzo della Ragione in Ferrara, a key public building with medieval origins which was rebuilt during the postwar years according to a project by Marcello Piacentini. The research will specifically focus on the aesthetic and political debates generated by the building and on the pivotal role played by Piacentini, thanks to the extensive body of documents collected at the Biblioteca di Scienze Tecnologiche of the University of Florence and at the City Ar...

Firenze e le sedi dell’ufficio comunale: Palazzo Spini-Feroni, Palazzo Medici e Palazzo Vecchio (1845-1889)

This paper retraces the events that led to the transfer of the Florentine municipality from Palagio di Parte Guelfa to Palazzo Spini-Feroni and then to Palazzo Vecchio, thanks to the extensive body of documents collected at the Archivio Storico del Comune di Firenze. The research also examines the restoration of these buildings between 1845 and 1889, focusing on the actors involved and the particular political and economic circumstances that gave rise to these undertakings.

Jerusalem in the Eyes of a Late Renaissance Architect: Galeazzo Alessi and the Design of the Temple of Salomon on the Sacro Monte of Varallo

Around 1565 the Late Renaissance architect Galeazzo Alessi designed an ambitious renovation plan for the Sacro Monte of Varallo Sesia, outlined in a 320-sheet manuscript book of drawings known as Libro dei Misteri (1565-72). When Galeazzo Alessi undertook the project, the Sacro Monte was one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Northern Italy. It was known as the ‘Jerusalem’ of Varallo, because it physically reproduced many monuments of the Holy Land and recreated in the middle of the Al...

«Mi sono stancato dell’Italia, ma ne sono irresistibilmente attratto»: Le ultime opere di Cecil Pinsent (1947-1958)

The English architect Cecil Ross Pinsent (1884-1963) is best known as a garden designer. Working for the Anglo-American community that lived on the hills of Florence, Pinsent designed some of the most important formal gardens of the early Twentieth century. Much less explored, however, is Pinsent’s career after 1937, when he decided to leave Italy, the country where he had taken roots and built his professional fortune, and return to England. This essay retraces the years that followed his mo...

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