Nicola D'Ugo
no shortage of copious volumes illustrating the historic resources of Lazio. There are entirely dedicated to cities, villages, neighborhoods, individual buildings. And the more we hear tell, the more obvious the enormity of the gaps in our knowledge, the Adagio of huge shadows between the brief illuminations of detail, the episode, the particular.
If you think the twelve books composed the nineteenth-century anthropologist James G. Frazer to explain the myth of Diana at Nemi and the strange king who Dimir, one understands why Lazio unusual tried to tell us differently on areas where sediment has been the work of thousands of scholars. The myth of Diana, except a vague reference name day, the author tells us nothing, preferring to tell us that place in an "unusual", from the first century. AD forties to the present.
Crielesi The purpose of the book is actually to use up a knowledge of the places visited, either to grasp the most important aspects, then focusing the speech as a string in a characterization as petty, but rather to open in passing the windows of the survey, with winks and raised curiosity archeology and documentary sources, often very famous, most often by professionals. The taste for the arts means that the author does not compel within the thin language of the chronicler, but bears an aesthetic judgments about art works, of course, are not always and only art, but manufacturing and construction.
This operation smoothly and the place of narrative aesthetic evaluation in the adjectives ("elegant," "exuberant," "restless", etc..) Allows to get close to the places described as a traveling companion, rather than as a tourist.
[pubblicato in: Notizie in... Controluce , n. VIII/1-2, gennaio-febbraio 1999, p. 17 . ]
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