Università Roma Tre

Program: the course of “History of the city and the territory” (monograph) provides investigations of the city through sections included between antiquity and the middle of XVIII century. Special attention is reserved to the study of italian cities and to urban transformations of Roma. The various sections will concern topics of special interest. In particular will be processed the following topics: ”Italy before Roma”; “Ancient Roma: from the foundation of the city to the constantinian age”; “Roma in italy – urban expansion-contraction between late antiquity and early middle age”; “Distinctive characters of islamic city”; “Natural and rational city in the middle age”; “Models and types of cities” (in particular: Siena, Pisa, Firenze, Gubbio); “Military and ideal city in the treatises and in the practice of urban transformations”; “Introduction to the renaissance city - palace and city” (in particular: Urbino, Ferrara and Pienza); “Renaissance Roma”; “Architecture and city in the state of Farnese”; “Napoli and Palermo capitals of southern Italy between XV and XVI century”; “Baroque Roma”; “Late baroque and neoclassical Roma”; “Capital cities of the eighteenth century in Europe”.

Texts: books, papers and other material will be shown to class. In particular, for the study of renaissance and medieval city are recommended the following texts: E. Guidoni, Storia dell' urbanistica – il medioevo, secoli VI-XII, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1991; E. Guidoni, La città dal medioevo al rinascimento, Roma-Bari, Laterza 1981.
For the study of Roma in the XVIII century is recommended the following text: P. Micalizzi, Roma nel XVIII secolo, Roma, Kappa, 2003.