in "The Military Orders. Culture and conflict in the Mediterranean World", vol. 6.1, ed. by J. Sc... more in "The Military Orders. Culture and conflict in the Mediterranean World", vol. 6.1, ed. by J. Schenk and M. Carr, Routledge, London and New York 2017, pp. 147-158 [ISBN 978-1-4724-7635-7]
Mediterranean cities bear traces of their past, despite the most recent urban transformations. Th... more Mediterranean cities bear traces of their past, despite the most recent urban transformations. The paper focuses on the town of Candia, a strategic site in Venice’s maritime domain (1207-1669): the memory of Venetian Candia, after extensive urban demolitions and reconstructions, survives in its road network, place names, and archaeological remains. Some maps and cadastral sources of the early modern period highlight known and less-known elements of its lost urban landscape.
In V. Castagnolo et al. (ed. by), Atti delle Giornate di studio Architettura Fortificata. Rilievo e Restauro, Ed. Aesei, Martina Franca 2017 [ISBN 978-88-909574-8-2], 2017
Venetian and Ottoman tower-houses in Crete are a little-known topic, largely
due to the fragmen... more Venetian and Ottoman tower-houses in Crete are a little-known topic, largely
due to the fragmentary nature of the sources. An inventory of surviving
buildings, however, allowed to make a first study of typologies and distribution
of the towers on the island. The survey of a case study showed these towers
were built for military purposes, but then the residential function (clearly
in view placed at the top level) took over. Fortified houses, and towers in
particular, were part of a system of power for land control and participated in
the construction of natural and anthropic landscape.
Città mediterranee in trasformazione. Identità e immagine del paesaggio urbano tra Sette e Novecento, edited by C. de Seta and A. Buccaro (Naples, 2014): 855-864.
The town of Rhodes, the Hospitaller stronghold until the early modern period, was under the Ottom... more The town of Rhodes, the Hospitaller stronghold until the early modern period, was under the Ottoman 1522-1912) and Italian rule (until 1943), going through a long urban and architectural evolution. Iconography from the 18th to the 20th century, also in written production (travel narratives, tourist guides, magazines), illustrates the search for medieval souvenirs in the Islamic decadent town (18th-19th c.) and the shifting of symbolic-geographic idea of city, linked to a new attitude towards historical heritage and to the creation of a new urban center (20th c.). This communication aims to trace the changing role of medieval town in Turkish and Italian ideology and urban practices. Particular attention will be given to the iconographic source, especially photography, as a useful tool for documenting the 19th-century Ottoman Rhodes as a travel destination, then replaced by the Italian city intended to be the “Eastern rampart” of the rising empire.
In A. Nicolaides (ed. by), Problèmes de topographies urbaines à la lumière de nouvelles recherches en Méditerranée byzantine (IVe-XIVe siècles), PUP Aix-en-Provence
In A.M. Rao (ed. by), Felicità pubblica e felicità privata nel Settecento, Proceedings of the International congress (Anacapri, 24-28/05/2008), Società Italiana di Studi sul XVIII Secolo (SISSD), Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2012, p. 405-421
In A.M. Rao (ed. by), La città nel Settecento: saperi e forme di rappresentazione (Venaria, 27-29/05/2010), Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2014, p. 43-60
Conference
Course of History of Architecture, prof. Emma Maglio, Università degli Studi Federico ... more Conference Course of History of Architecture, prof. Emma Maglio, Università degli Studi Federico II, Napoli 28 October 2020
in "The Military Orders. Culture and conflict in the Mediterranean World", vol. 6.1, ed. by J. Sc... more in "The Military Orders. Culture and conflict in the Mediterranean World", vol. 6.1, ed. by J. Schenk and M. Carr, Routledge, London and New York 2017, pp. 147-158 [ISBN 978-1-4724-7635-7]
Mediterranean cities bear traces of their past, despite the most recent urban transformations. Th... more Mediterranean cities bear traces of their past, despite the most recent urban transformations. The paper focuses on the town of Candia, a strategic site in Venice’s maritime domain (1207-1669): the memory of Venetian Candia, after extensive urban demolitions and reconstructions, survives in its road network, place names, and archaeological remains. Some maps and cadastral sources of the early modern period highlight known and less-known elements of its lost urban landscape.
In V. Castagnolo et al. (ed. by), Atti delle Giornate di studio Architettura Fortificata. Rilievo e Restauro, Ed. Aesei, Martina Franca 2017 [ISBN 978-88-909574-8-2], 2017
Venetian and Ottoman tower-houses in Crete are a little-known topic, largely
due to the fragmen... more Venetian and Ottoman tower-houses in Crete are a little-known topic, largely
due to the fragmentary nature of the sources. An inventory of surviving
buildings, however, allowed to make a first study of typologies and distribution
of the towers on the island. The survey of a case study showed these towers
were built for military purposes, but then the residential function (clearly
in view placed at the top level) took over. Fortified houses, and towers in
particular, were part of a system of power for land control and participated in
the construction of natural and anthropic landscape.
Città mediterranee in trasformazione. Identità e immagine del paesaggio urbano tra Sette e Novecento, edited by C. de Seta and A. Buccaro (Naples, 2014): 855-864.
The town of Rhodes, the Hospitaller stronghold until the early modern period, was under the Ottom... more The town of Rhodes, the Hospitaller stronghold until the early modern period, was under the Ottoman 1522-1912) and Italian rule (until 1943), going through a long urban and architectural evolution. Iconography from the 18th to the 20th century, also in written production (travel narratives, tourist guides, magazines), illustrates the search for medieval souvenirs in the Islamic decadent town (18th-19th c.) and the shifting of symbolic-geographic idea of city, linked to a new attitude towards historical heritage and to the creation of a new urban center (20th c.). This communication aims to trace the changing role of medieval town in Turkish and Italian ideology and urban practices. Particular attention will be given to the iconographic source, especially photography, as a useful tool for documenting the 19th-century Ottoman Rhodes as a travel destination, then replaced by the Italian city intended to be the “Eastern rampart” of the rising empire.
In A. Nicolaides (ed. by), Problèmes de topographies urbaines à la lumière de nouvelles recherches en Méditerranée byzantine (IVe-XIVe siècles), PUP Aix-en-Provence
In A.M. Rao (ed. by), Felicità pubblica e felicità privata nel Settecento, Proceedings of the International congress (Anacapri, 24-28/05/2008), Società Italiana di Studi sul XVIII Secolo (SISSD), Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2012, p. 405-421
In A.M. Rao (ed. by), La città nel Settecento: saperi e forme di rappresentazione (Venaria, 27-29/05/2010), Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2014, p. 43-60
Conference
Course of History of Architecture, prof. Emma Maglio, Università degli Studi Federico ... more Conference Course of History of Architecture, prof. Emma Maglio, Università degli Studi Federico II, Napoli 28 October 2020
Transregional Academy, Forum Transregionale Studien, Max Weber Stuftung, FORTH, Centre Marc Bloch... more Transregional Academy, Forum Transregionale Studien, Max Weber Stuftung, FORTH, Centre Marc Bloch - On-site lecture
Since ancient times, men have built urban agglomerations, road networks and productive structures... more Since ancient times, men have built urban agglomerations, road networks and productive structures: a built heritage that has changed and continues to change landscape, affecting its relations and, eventually, its vulnerability. The historical construction of the Mediterranean habitat is a highly debated subject and a very diversified historiography has been dealing with it. This article will focus on rural houses and habitat on the island of Crete during the late Venetian period (16th-17th century). It intends to propose a first reflection on the material and documentary traces of villages and houses, which indicate the ways of “building” the rural landscape according to precise objectives and needs. The house is a main built element of agro-pastoral lands: its architectural and building features, as well as the story of its owners and tenants in the economy of the village, must be explored to better understand the permanencies and transformations of settlement strategies on the main Venice maritime colony.
By studying a corpus of sources, the article tries to identify the site of the ancient Acquatacci... more By studying a corpus of sources, the article tries to identify the site of the ancient Acquataccio’s tavern and other hosting places in the Roman suburb along the Appian way, to highlight the features of suburban taverns, and the role of the suburb, on the edge between the city and the countryside, in the long-term socio-economic and building transformations. During the modern age, several taverns existing in that area underwent functional and building transformations, as well as perhaps a place name mobility. It is possible that three different taverns had the same name in different times, co-existing for a certain period. The case of Acquataccio allows to consider suburban taverns, primarily turned to local customers, as part of the integration process of the suburb to the city, through the fact that they were adaptable and polyvalent, and tended to gather increasing recognisable places, in a continuous process of reuse.
In 1522, after two centuries of rule of the Knights of St. John, Rhodes became part of the Ottoma... more In 1522, after two centuries of rule of the Knights of St. John, Rhodes became part of the Ottoman Empire. The town retained economic prosperity but lost all strategic roles, reverting to a provincial rank. For these reasons and because of lacking sources, scholars little studied the Ottoman town of Rhodes, but travel reports and urban analysis suggest interesting remarks. The Turks reused pre-existing architectures and occupied the walled town, while Greek and Latin people were forced to live in suburbs. Relevant architectural changes, as seen through the sources and unpublished recent photos, concerned religious buildings: Latin churches were adapted to Djami, mesdjid or warehouses and Greek ones became houses. Inside the walls “Ottomanization” was carried out through few interventions occupying leading points of the town, while other important functions (such as the government seat and cemeteries) were moved outside the walls. The hypothesis proposed is Rhodes model of Islamic city, based on the market as an “empty center” with public buildings around it (Friday Mosque, bedesten, madrasa and hammam) and applied exploiting the existing sites. The Friday Mosque and a madrasa with hammam were built on top of the slope of the medieval market street, where there was a Christian monastery, and a bedesten may have been placed in a medieval building near the present Bezesten Djami. In addition, five new mosques were founded becoming new urban polarities. Rhodes was almost certainly divided in mahalla, residential units usually centered on a mosque: a mahalla worked as a self-sufficient district, generally extended from ten to few hundreds homes. This subdivision changed Rhodes urban structure, for streets gradually became cul de sac. It’s not yet possible to outline the borders of Rhodes mahalla or identify their central mosques, but the sources attest that each mahalla had the name of its reference mosque. These considerations allowed drawing a first scheme of Rhodes urban fabric and its new polarities. The town can be considered a relevant example of Ottoman urban policy outside the motherland and could be taken as a reference in the study of other cities at the periphery of the empire, as a part of a larger comparative analysis.
La rivista raccoglie studi e ricerche in materia di Iconografia e Cartografia storica urbana e Im... more La rivista raccoglie studi e ricerche in materia di Iconografia e Cartografia storica urbana e Immagine del Paesaggio di ambito italiano ed europeo, promossi dal Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Iconografia della Città Europea dell’Università Fridericiana ed è anche organo dell’Associazione culturale Eikonocity. Tali studi rispettano le linee guida ministeriali per i diversi ambiti disciplinari che la rivista racchiude. Gli argomenti trattati si allineano con le direttive delle comunità scientifiche e delle pubbliche istituzioni in ambito nazionale e internazionale.
Au cours de leur installation à Rhodes pendant environ deux siècles,
les Chevaliers Hospitaliers ... more Au cours de leur installation à Rhodes pendant environ deux siècles, les Chevaliers Hospitaliers ont superposé une forteresse-monastère à la ville byzantine. La conquête ottomane a entraîné ensuite dans la ville un processus d’islamisation qui s’est traduit par une large réutilisation du bâti existant. Les modalités de ces opérations demeurent peu connues. Cet ouvrage propose un voyage dans l’histoire de Rhodes entre le Moyen Âge et le début de l’époque moderne, afin de retracer les phases de son accroissement urbain et les interactions entre l’architecture religieuse et la forma urbis. Cette étude s’appuie sur les outils de l’analyse spatiale et morphologique, qui a une partie importante dans les études d’archéologie urbaine, ainsi que sur un corpus de sources variées : les manuscrits des Hospitaliers, les récits de voyage, l’iconographie et les données archéologiques connues. Une partie de l’ouvrage est consacrée enfin au recensement et à une analyse comparative des églises et des mosquées urbaines : bien que souvent limitée à une dimension régionale, la production architecturale et artistique à Rhodes est étroitement liée à des réalisations plus prestigieuses d’inspiration byzantine et gothique, ainsi que du monde ottoman. Dans un contexte actuel où l’urbanisation contemporaine côtoie tant le patrimoine bâti le plus connu que les vestiges archéologiques mineurs, Rhodes s’avère être un véritable « laboratoire urbain » dont l’histoire demeure un champ en construction.
IX Convegno internazionale-Napoli, 22-24 ottobre 2020 Call for papers LA CITTÀ PALINSESTO Tracce,... more IX Convegno internazionale-Napoli, 22-24 ottobre 2020 Call for papers LA CITTÀ PALINSESTO Tracce, sguardi e narrazioni sulla complessità dei contesti urbani storici André Corboz utilizzò il termine palinsesto per proporre un'efficace metafora (Le territoire comme palimpseste) tra il documento pergamenaceo e la città e/o il territorio su cui l'uomo applica il proprio fare. La pergamena, che dal Medioevo ha tramandato le scritture, era un materiale di grande pregio e veniva più volte riutilizzato, abraso, talvolta invertito e riscritto, pur non perdendo mai la propria 'stratificazione', di cui rimanevano leggibili le tracce. La città e il suo territorio sono come una pergamena, trasformati dall'azione della natura e dell'uomo, e dotati nei secoli di significati differenti in relazione alle società che li modificano, senza però cancellare i segni del tempo, sia naturali sia antropici. Gli studi, che si sono perfezionati nel corso degli anni, sono ancora attuali? La risposta è chiaramente affermativa e i layer che appaiono oggi sovrapponibili nei tessuti urbani e nei loro territori rappresentano per la nostra società un'eredità da non cancellare, ma, anzi, da conoscere ed esaltare. Ci vorremmo interrogare su questo complesso patrimonio di tracce, di immagini, di narrazioni: come siamo arrivati all'attuale complessità urbana? come possiamo descrivere le nostre città? come le vediamo e le rappresentiamo? come possiamo recuperarle e valorizzarle?
In the framework of the Macrosession 5 "Urban/Rural: identifications, contaminations, policies, c... more In the framework of the Macrosession 5 "Urban/Rural: identifications, contaminations, policies, cultural heritage", I will be chair of the session n. 5.9 "Permanence and transience between urban and rural worlds: modern Europe and Mediterranean (15th-18th century)".
Storia e immagine della diversità urbana: luoghi e paesaggi dei privilegi e del benessere, dell’i... more Storia e immagine della diversità urbana: luoghi e paesaggi dei privilegi e del benessere, dell’isolamento, del disagio, della multiculturalità / History and image of urban diversity: places and landscapes of privileges and welfare, of seclusion, discomfort and multiculturalism
Nella storia moderna e contemporanea la città ha dovuto tenere conto delle ‘alterità’ sociali, ossia delle classi privilegiate, delle minoranze, degli stranieri e degli immigrati, e delle conseguenti diversità culturali e religiose. La compagine urbana ha strutturato alcune parti del proprio tessuto come luoghi di esercizio del potere politico, militare o di classe, altre come spazi per gli arrivi, per la produzione e per gli scambi, ma anche per l’isolamento, l’emarginazione o il rimedio alla catastrofe. Nel corso dell’età moderna l’immagine della città ‘altra’ viene spesso falsata o addirittura negata da governanti e potenti per fini di apparenza o di propaganda politica; e se, tra Sette e Novecento, nuovi metodi di rappresentazione possono svelare la struttura e il paesaggio urbano nella loro oggettività, il ritratto di città mostra ancora oggi le contraddizioni di una comunità che a volte include, o addirittura esalta, le diversità, altre volte le respinge, tradendo il malessere di una difficile integrazione.
In modern and contemporary history, the city has taken account of social ‘otherities’, namely of privileged classes, minorities, foreigners and immigrants, and of resulting cultural and religious diversity. The urban community has structured some parts of its fabric as places of political, military or class power, other parts as spaces for arrivals, for production and trade, but also for isolation, marginalization or remedy for catastrophe. In the modern age, the image of the ‘other' city’ is often falsified or even denyed by rulers and powerful people for purposes of political appearance or propaganda; and if, between the XVII and XX century, new methods of representation can reveal the structure and the urban landscape in their objectivity, the city portrait still shows the contradictions of a community that sometimes includes or even enhances the diversities, other times rejects them, betraying the malaise of a difficult integration.
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CORSO DI STORIA DELL'ARCHITETT... more Conferences&lectures: DIALOGHI PALLADIANI Roma Tre University Rome CORSO DI STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA 1
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André Corboz used the term palimpsest to propose an effective metaphor (“Le territoire... more André Corboz used the term palimpsest to propose an effective metaphor (“Le territoire comme palimpseste”)between the parchment document and the city and/or territory on which man applies his doing. The parchment, which has handed down the scriptures since the Middle Ages, was a material of great value and was reused, abraded, sometimes inverted and rewrittenseveral times, while never losing its ‘stratification’, traces of which remained legible.The city and its territory are like a parchment, transformed by the action of nature and man, and endowed over the centuries with different meanings in relation to the societies that modify them, without however erasing the signs of time, both natural and anthropic. Are the studies that have improved over the years still current? The answer is clearly affirmative and the layers that appear today superimposable in urban fabrics and in their territories represent for our society a legacy not to be erased, but, indeed, to be known and enhanced.We would like to ask ourselves about this complex patrimony of tracks, images, narrations: how did we get to the current urban complexity? how can we describe our cities? how do we see and represent them? how can we recover and enhance them?
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due to the fragmentary nature of the sources. An inventory of surviving
buildings, however, allowed to make a first study of typologies and distribution
of the towers on the island. The survey of a case study showed these towers
were built for military purposes, but then the residential function (clearly
in view placed at the top level) took over. Fortified houses, and towers in
particular, were part of a system of power for land control and participated in
the construction of natural and anthropic landscape.
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Course of History of Architecture, prof. Emma Maglio, Università degli Studi Federico II, Napoli
28 October 2020
due to the fragmentary nature of the sources. An inventory of surviving
buildings, however, allowed to make a first study of typologies and distribution
of the towers on the island. The survey of a case study showed these towers
were built for military purposes, but then the residential function (clearly
in view placed at the top level) took over. Fortified houses, and towers in
particular, were part of a system of power for land control and participated in
the construction of natural and anthropic landscape.
Course of History of Architecture, prof. Emma Maglio, Università degli Studi Federico II, Napoli
28 October 2020
The historical construction of the Mediterranean habitat is a highly debated subject and a very diversified historiography has been dealing with it. This article will focus on rural houses and habitat on the island of Crete during the late Venetian period (16th-17th century). It intends to propose a first reflection on the material and documentary traces of villages and houses, which indicate the ways of “building” the rural landscape according to precise objectives and needs. The house is a main built element of agro-pastoral lands: its architectural and building features, as well as the story of its owners and tenants in the economy of the village, must be explored to better understand the permanencies and transformations of settlement strategies on the main Venice maritime colony.
les Chevaliers Hospitaliers ont superposé une forteresse-monastère
à la ville byzantine. La conquête ottomane a entraîné ensuite
dans la ville un processus d’islamisation qui s’est traduit par une
large réutilisation du bâti existant. Les modalités de ces opérations
demeurent peu connues. Cet ouvrage propose un voyage dans
l’histoire de Rhodes entre le Moyen Âge et le début de l’époque
moderne, afin de retracer les phases de son accroissement urbain et
les interactions entre l’architecture religieuse et la forma urbis. Cette
étude s’appuie sur les outils de l’analyse spatiale et morphologique,
qui a une partie importante dans les études d’archéologie urbaine,
ainsi que sur un corpus de sources variées : les manuscrits des
Hospitaliers, les récits de voyage, l’iconographie et les données
archéologiques connues. Une partie de l’ouvrage est consacrée
enfin au recensement et à une analyse comparative des églises et
des mosquées urbaines : bien que souvent limitée à une dimension
régionale, la production architecturale et artistique à Rhodes est
étroitement liée à des réalisations plus prestigieuses d’inspiration
byzantine et gothique, ainsi que du monde ottoman. Dans un
contexte actuel où l’urbanisation contemporaine côtoie tant le
patrimoine bâti le plus connu que les vestiges archéologiques
mineurs, Rhodes s’avère être un véritable « laboratoire urbain » dont
l’histoire demeure un champ en construction.
Nella storia moderna e contemporanea la città ha dovuto tenere conto delle ‘alterità’ sociali, ossia delle classi privilegiate, delle minoranze, degli stranieri e degli immigrati, e delle conseguenti diversità culturali e religiose. La compagine urbana ha strutturato alcune parti del proprio tessuto come luoghi di esercizio del potere politico, militare o di classe, altre come spazi per gli arrivi, per la produzione e per gli scambi, ma anche per l’isolamento, l’emarginazione o il rimedio alla catastrofe. Nel corso dell’età moderna l’immagine della città ‘altra’ viene spesso falsata o addirittura negata da governanti e potenti per fini di apparenza o di propaganda politica; e se, tra Sette e Novecento, nuovi metodi di rappresentazione possono svelare la struttura e il paesaggio urbano nella loro oggettività, il ritratto di città mostra ancora oggi le contraddizioni di una comunità che a volte include, o addirittura esalta, le diversità, altre volte le respinge, tradendo il malessere di una difficile integrazione.
In modern and contemporary history, the city has taken account of social ‘otherities’, namely of privileged classes, minorities, foreigners and immigrants, and of resulting cultural and religious diversity. The urban community has structured some parts of its fabric as places of political, military or class power, other parts as spaces for arrivals, for production and trade, but also for isolation, marginalization or remedy for catastrophe. In the modern age, the image of the ‘other' city’ is often falsified or even denyed by rulers and powerful people for purposes of political appearance or propaganda; and if, between the XVII and XX century, new methods of representation can reveal the structure and the urban landscape in their objectivity, the city portrait still shows the contradictions of a community that sometimes includes or even enhances the diversities, other times rejects them, betraying the malaise of a difficult integration.
Roma Tre University Rome
CORSO DI STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA 1
Roma Tre University Rome
CORSO DI STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA 1