The essay aims to investigate the cultural and political context within which Giovanni Battista de Rossi’s scientific work and public commitment appeared. In particular, attention will be paid to the imagery of ruins and to the cultural value, both political and religious, that the various declinations of this symbolic complex had in the political culture of the time. In fact, the birth of Christian archaeology and de Rossi’s work took place in a time marked by an intense attraction for the underground Rome and the memory of martyrdom. In Nineteenth-century Rome, on the edge between revolution and counter-revolution, this attraction took the form of a religious re-signification of places of memory to be opposed to those of classical Rome, between ultramontane piety and romantic recovery of the catacombs.
Il tempo delle catacombe. Politiche della memoria e nostalgia del passato nella Roma di G. B. de Rossi
Ignazio Veca
2022-01-01
Abstract
The essay aims to investigate the cultural and political context within which Giovanni Battista de Rossi’s scientific work and public commitment appeared. In particular, attention will be paid to the imagery of ruins and to the cultural value, both political and religious, that the various declinations of this symbolic complex had in the political culture of the time. In fact, the birth of Christian archaeology and de Rossi’s work took place in a time marked by an intense attraction for the underground Rome and the memory of martyrdom. In Nineteenth-century Rome, on the edge between revolution and counter-revolution, this attraction took the form of a religious re-signification of places of memory to be opposed to those of classical Rome, between ultramontane piety and romantic recovery of the catacombs.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
