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Zusatztext "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 "Thanks to her ambitious research in archives! print! and cemeteries! Malone is entirely persuasive as she draws out the ways in which the latter can be microcosmic renderings of the cities to which they are attached! or when she refers to them as conveying 'purified images of the societies that they served'. Her thorough readings of spatial arrangements! in fact! highlight these cemeteries' formal innovations in arranging and celebrating the dead in deliberate! self-conscious correspondence with new forms of state life. In this regard! the book repeatedly teases out instances in which the cult of the dead slipped out of the total grasp of the Church! becoming one of the new Italy's canvases for developing secularism."Mia Fuller! Association for the Study of Modern Italy Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext As the first survey of Italy's monumental cemeteries, the book explores the relationship between architecture and politics, or how architecture is formed by political forces. Zusammenfassung As the first survey of Italy’s monumental cemeteries, the book explores the relationship between architecture and politics, or how architecture is formed by political forces. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
