1st Edition
Architecture, Death and Nationhood Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy
By Hannah Malone
Copyright 2017
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the nineteenth century, new cemeteries were built in many Italian cities that were unique in scale and grandeur, and which became destinations on the Grand Tour. From the Middle Ages, the dead had been buried in churches and urban graveyards but, in the 1740s, a radical reform across Europe prohibited burial inside cities and led to the creation of suburban burial grounds. Italy’s... Read more
Introduction, 1. A Radical Reform of Burial Practices, 1740–1804, 2. The Monumental Cemetery as a New Architectural Type, 3. Death and Risorgimento: The Politics of Italian Funerary Architecture, 4. Style, Language and Meaning, Conclusion, Appendix: Catalogue
Biography
Hannah Malone is a historian of architecture and modern Italy. After a doctorate at St John’s College Cambridge, she held a fellowship at the British School at Rome and studied fascist military cemeteries. As a Lumley Junior Research Fellow at Magdalene College Cambridge, she is currently working on the architect Marcello Piacentini.
"Informatively and comprehensively illustrated, impeccably referenced and written with wise and wide-ranging insights, this fascinating tome is a very important contribution to architectural, political and social history."
James Stevens Curl, Times Higher Education, July 2017
