The Archaeology of Twentieth-Century Rome: Excavating the Last Days of the Alessandrino District.

Autor: Corsetti, Francisca Lobera, Jacobsen, Jan Kindberg, Mittica, Gloria, Murro, Giovanni, Presicce, Claudio Parisi, Raja, Rubina, di Siena, Laura, Vitti, Massimo
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Zdroj: Journal of Contemporary Archaeology; 2022, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p139-166, 28p
Abstrakt: When Rome became the capital of a unified Italian state in 1871, the city lagged behind other European capitals in contemporary architectural expression. Ancient ruins evoked a distant glory, although the area of Rome containing the Imperial Fora was covered over by a dense urban residential quarter called the Alessandrino District. The quarter was labelled a slum district by fascist propaganda, and it was demolished in the early 1930s to make way for a parade avenue, the Via dell'Impero. This article presents a discussion of the cultural and socio-economic nature of the Alessandrino District in the decades before its destruction, combining results from the Danish-Italian excavations at Caesar's Forum with a selection of archival data and historical accounts. The findings presented here indicate that a newly investigated area of the Alessandrino District was in fact not a slum district but rather a thriving middle-class residential and commercial area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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