The squares of Bologna, Athos Vianelli, Newton & Compton, 2003

The squares of Bologna, Athos Vianelli, Newton & Compton, 2003

History and art, private customs and still living traditions of the "turreted city", in the scenography of the places that have always constituted its social and cultural centre. Rome.

In-8°, pp. 222 with 30 tables photo. b/w ft and no. ill. b/w nt

Bross. shiny grenade with wings ill. with view of piazza bolognese by Manleur, tit. white on the plate, tit. and make edit. whites on the right

“Italian Traditions” series, no. 30. 1st edition.

In the substance of an ancient political conception, the squares of the "fosca turrita Bologna" were conceived as spaces organized to give life to a poetics of social life. They were a contingent need for public coexistence but also projected over time and such as to evoke sensations and presences punctually recorded in this book today. The author has in fact dealt with the description of the main squares of the historic center of Bologna as well as those of the urban ring road corresponding to the last circle of walls, in their cultural and civil significance, retracing itineraries that prepare us to capture memories capable of integrating architecture into the knot of everyday life , environment, history.

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