Arhiva Ulcinj

Roberto Bosi

To trace back the history of the Berlin Castle from its foundation to the present day is like making an incursion into the political and urban history of the city it represents, in which the act of reconstruction becomes the moment of re-appropriation, on the one hand, of the ‘evocative efficacy’ of the Castle and, on the other, of the rediscovery of the special relationship that once connected the monument to the city and was later lost. The urban mission of the work and the fact of its being a monument lie at the centre of Franco Stella’s project.

Riccardo Serraglio

In 1954 the architects Roberto Pane and Ezio De Felice were commissioned by the Caserta Provincial Tourist Board to draw up the restoration project of the medieval village of Casertavecchia. After some modifications were made, in 1961 the project was financed by the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno. The plan was not limited to the restoration of the architectural emergencies, such as the cathedral of San Michele Arcangelo, but it involved the recovery of the medieval building fabric and the disused castle. Unfortunately, the intervention was only partially achieved due to lack of economic resources and so it has been deprived of its organicity. At the time of the plan of Pane and De Felice, the castle was not restored because it was covered with vegetation and debris. Only from the mid-1980s to the present day, many structures of the castle have been restored but still a destination has not been established for the covered hall and for the external areas of the building. Taken together, the urban renewal of the medieval village and the architectural restoration of the castle cannot be considered satisfactory and it is hoped that in the near future new interventions will be carried out with a scientific method.

Giuseppe Di Gregorio

Claudia Aveta

Maria Teresa Campisi

Maria Pia Testa, Raffaele Catuogno, Andrea Pane

Giuseppe Mollo, Giuseppe Piccolo

Carlos Alberto Cacciavillani

Fabio Ambrogio

Giovanna Muscatello, Carmine Mitello

Laura Ribotta

Mattia Francesco Antonio Cantatore

Le château de Canossa a fait l’objet de recherches archéologiques de 1877 à nos jours. En raison du manque de données actualisées concernant les pièces trouvées sur le site, nous partons de l’étude du matériel numismatique provenant des campagnes de fouilles menées en 2009 sur la place forte et en 2017-2018 dans la zone du bourg pour proposer également une étude critique des pièces découvertes lors des investigations du XIXe siècle. Ces dernières ont malheureusement été volées en 1921, mais il en reste une description partielle. Enfin, nous examinons une intéressante enseigne de pèlerinage romaine du XIIIe / XIVe siècle représentant saint Pierre et saint Paul, trouvée en 2018 dans le bourg.

Gianfranco Pertot

The aim of the contribution is to present the methods used and results obtained to date, begin to frame the information collected in the broader historiographical framework of the Castle of Milan, to stimulate new research on indirect sources (or their re-readings) and, more generally, to highlight the importance of direct, archaeological readings, even in contexts where knowledge of the historical event is considered mostly complete and not susceptible to significant variations.

Cristina Carbonetti Vendittelli

Nel saggio si considerano i nove cartulari del vescovato di Città di Castello, la cui ricchezza e importanza sono state per la prima volta messe in luce da Robert Brentano nel 1960. Esso si focalizza sui fascicoli prodotti nel xiii secolo, sulla loro particolare struttura codicologica, sulla tradizione e organizzazione interna dei testi nonché sull’apparato ipertestuale, con lo scopo di far luce sulla cronologia e le modalità con le quali, a partire dagli inizi del Duecento, i vescovi di Città di Castello attuarono la loro «rivoluzione documentaria», e di illustrare una tipologia di cartulari ecclesiastici diversa dalle compilazioni prodotte nei secoli precedenti e fino al xii inoltrato: nuova nelle forme, nelle modalità redazionali e, soprattutto, nelle funzioni assolte.

Francesco Venturi

Il saggio prende in esame la recente edizione del Giornale di guerra e di prigionia di Carlo Emilio Gadda (Adelphi 2023), a cura di Paola Italia, mettendone in luce le novità e le differenze rispetto al testo critico procurato da Dante Isella (Garzanti 1992). I quaderni riemersi nel 2019, redatti da Gadda nel novembre-dicembre 1918 durante la prigionia a Celle Lager, rivelano dati cruciali sul suo rapporto conflittuale con Ugo Betti e sulle connessioni tra il Giornale e le prose belliche del Castello di Udine (Edizioni di Solaria 1934).   Delving Into the New Edition of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s “Giornale di guerra e di prigionia”and its Relation to “Il castello di Udine” and Other Works The essay examines the latest edition of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Giornale di guerra e di prigionia (Adelphi 2023), edited by Paola Italia, highlighting its innovations and differences compared to the critical text provided by Dante Isella (Garzanti 1992). The notebooks, unearthed in 2019 and penned by Gadda during his imprisonment in Celle Lager in November-December 1918, unveil crucial insights into his conflicted relationship with Ugo Betti and the interrelations between the Giornale and the war-related prose later collected in Il castello di Udine (Edizioni di Solaria 1934).

Adriana Trematerra

The Mediterranean fortified heritage, as is well known, represents an architectural testimony of considerable interest that has often been subject to destruction, reconstruction and abandonment over the centuries. Significant in the field of the conservation of this heritage was the ICOMOS Guidelines on fortifications and military heritage (2021), which attempted to establish basic principles for restoration work on these artefacts, with the objective of guaranteeing the authenticity and integrity of both morphological and functional works. Among the principles contained in the cited Guidelines is that of conservation through activities and research aimed at a preliminary knowledge of the constructive and material complexity of the heritage under investigation. The present paper, being part of this context and of a wider ongoing research focused on the analysis of the Balkan fortified heritage, proposes the knowledge of the Byzantine Fortress of Trikala in Greece through the discipline of restoration. The research intends to show the state of conservation of the analysed castle in order to propose possible enhancement strategies starting from an instrumental survey carried out using digital cameras and drones. The objective is to obtain an accurate preliminary knowledge of the place, making possible the subsequent elaboration of strategies aimed at the conservation and enhancement of an heritage with a high testimonial value that is little known and not adequately enhanced.

Paolo Golinelli

Eugenio Donato

Il contributo propone una sintesi sui lavori di lettura archeologica degli elevati nel castello di San Lucido (noto come castello Ruffo, sulla costa tirrenica calabrese, in provincia di Cosenza), un sito fino ad oggi inaccessibile, e sostanzialmente sconosciuto per quello che concerne gli aspetti archeologici e architettonici. Il castello (insieme al borgo e al relativo approdo) che insiste nell’areale dell’antica Clampetia (dapprima città brettia, poi conquistata dai Romani), compare nelle fonti medievali a partire dalla seconda metà dell’XI secolo, al tempo della conquista normanna, e per molti secoli costituisce un importante polo feudale dell’alto Tirreno Calabrese, strategico punto di controllo della viabilità terrestre e marittima. Il lavoro, condotto dallo scrivente in collaborazione con la SABAP CS, consiste nella lettura stratigrafica degli elevati coadiuvata dalle più recenti metodologie di rilevamento tridimensionale, ed ha permesso, tra gli altri risultati, di individuare la prima fase dell’incastellamento normanno caratterizzata dalla presenza della torre quadrangolare (donjon) sullo sperone meridionale della rupe.

Monica Baldassarri, Vincenzo Palleschi, Simona Raneri

Tra il 2010 e il 2020 una serie di ricerche storiche e archeologiche si sono concentrate sul castello di Godano, nell’entroterra spezzino. Tali indagini hanno consentito di definire le vicende di questo insediamento tra medioevo ed età moderna. Tra queste sono state individuate le tracce di attività di una zecca non autorizzata, cui si deve probabilmente anche la distruzione della rocca nel 1524.  Nel contributo sono presentati i dati dello studio archeologico, archeometrico e numismatico dei materiali recuperati con gli scavi che hanno consentito di mettere a fuoco diversi processi produttivi impiegati per la creazione di differenti serie di monete false relative ai prodotti ufficiali di zecche piemontesi, liguri, emiliane e toscane. In modo particolare vengono approfonditi i dati relativi all’argentatura superficiale utilizzata per produrre falsi quattrini di Siena e cornuti di Carmagnola. Prendendo spunto da quanto rilevato in questo sito, si aggiungono alcune considerazioni generali sulla produzione monetale in relazione all’approvvigionamento di materie prime, agli indicatori di produzione, alla trasmissione delle tecniche e alle maestranze dedite a questo tipo di produzione fraudolenta tra medioevo e la prima età moderna.

Giovanni Serreli

As part of the study of the medieval castles of Sardinia, since 1997 I studied the Castle of Marmilla (Las Plassas, Sardinia), one of the border castles of the Kingdom of Arborèa. After having published a monograph and various scientific articles on the castle and the historical landscape, in agreement with the municipal administration we have studied, conceived, designed, and built a museum, the MudA multimedia museum of the Kingdom of Arborèa. Built at the foot of the Castle, it was inaugurated in 2013 and immediately met with considerable success among specialists and enthusiasts, obtaining important funding and recognition. In fact, thanks to a multimedia, multi-sensory and playful approach, particularly suitable for school-age children, the visitor is invited to immerse themselves in the daily life of a medieval castle thanks to the most recent technologies; he thus discovers how a medieval castle worked, how people lived inside it, how people lived in the small villages around it and what its historical context was. The archaeological finds from the excavations of the castle conducted in 2007 are exhibited in a corridor of the museum, that gives them back their shape, function, and existence. The finds speak to the visitor in first person in the language of the Mediterranean place of production and tell of their construction, life, and use. A cook then invites visitors to participate in the medieval banquet offered by the castellan to his king, with the tasting of all t

Elena Casalini

Islamic glass disk weights are common through museums and private collections, although they are usually linked to Egypt due to their provenience or because they bear the finance directors names known to be active in Egypt. Egyptian glass weights have been largely studied, and offered a starting point for studies on the Syrian ones, while jordanian territory is yet to be investigated. Their use is broad and their interpretation not always certain, having usually lost their originally context: coin weights or monetary substitutes for copper and low-value currency, and later re-used tokens. Aim of this study is to analyse the origin, possible use, historical context and economic significance in exchange politics of a glass disk weight fragment from the excavation of the CF 35 in Shobak Castle, a great vaulted structure, built by crusaders and reused by ayyubids, located in the “monumental” area of the castle. It comes from the most recent layer, a thick level of sand and clay, covering the whole excavation area and dating to the abandon period. The item bears part of an inscription and a central design, it is therefore possible to establish a link to official coinage and patronage, and to deepen the knowledge of political and economic interaction of such a crucial area.

Luca Vespasiano

The castle of San Pio delle Camere is located on a ridge overlooking the plateau of Navelli, in the Abruzzo Apennines. The fortification has a roughly triangular shape, with a pentagonal tower at the top and two rectangular towers on either side. The study, starting from the documentary evidence and the results of an archaeological excavation of 2007, through an architectural survey made ad hoc, analyzes the ruins from a metrological, proportional and constructive point of view and proposes a dating of the construction between the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century. This dating, da un lato esclude l’ipotesi di preesistenze, confermando quella di un impianto unitario, dall’altro evidenzia un fenomeno a phenomenon of late fortification, which leads to rereading the history of the territory and to reconsider the chronology of its transformations.

Giuseppe Cosentino

Il progetto di Pier Louis Faloci per il castello di Laboissière a Fontenay-aux-Roses, si propone di rifunzionalizzare il castello e costruire delle strutture per la scuola di danza e musica, capaci mettersi in comunicazione le varie parti esistenti dell’antico edificio. Un progetto misurato, che con pochi elementi, alcuni ipogei, altri che emergono dalla terra, riesce a ricostruire un’ossatura per il corpo smembrato del castello. Quella di Faloci si propone come un’architettura della prossimità che sente e traduce in forma e spazio l’intorno e che riconosce nella stratificazione del paesaggio un valore primariamente progettuale.
 Pier-Louis Faloci’s project for the castle of Laboissière in Fontenay-aux-Roses, proposes to ascribe new functions to the castle and to build additional structures for the dance and music school that establish a dialogue with the existing parts of the ancient building. A measured project which, using few elements, some underground and others emerging from it, manages to reconstruct a bone structure for the dismembered body of the castle. Faloci proposes an architecture of proximity that both senses and translates the surroundings into form and space while also recognising a primarily design value in the layering of the landscape.