Publication details
Il Mito di Ravenna nell'Ottocento . Immaginare una città tardoantica tra il Congresso di Vienna e la Grande Guerra
| Title in English | The Myth of Ravenna in the 19th century : Imagining a late-antique city between the Vienna Congress and the Great War |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The book aims to investigate the city of Ravenna between the 19th and the very beginning of the 20th century focusing especially on the way in which Late Antique monuments shaped and constructed the image of the city and transformed it from a provincial site into a true capital of Italian (and world) culture. Through its three chapters – dedicated respectively to the art-historical studies on Ravenna's late-antique monuments, the foreigners' travel accounts of the city, and finally, to the local literary production and the restoration campaigns carried out in the considered period – the book offers to the reader a coherent and progressive path, from an international and global dimension to a national and local one, in the hope of tracing the genetic process that led to the creation of the Myth of Ravenna in the nineteenth century. In this sense, the topic is addressed through an innovative approach as the research considered the implications of the ever-changing dialogue between national, local, and foreign perceptions of the city. |
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