site: National Academy of San Luca (Rome).
Tuesday 25 June 2024, at 5.30 pm, presentation of the volume “Paesaggi di pietra e di verzura: homage to Vincenzo Cazzato” edited by Francesco Del Sole (Gangemi Editore, Rome 2023).
Introduced by: Claudio Strinati, General Secretary of the National Academy of San Luca.
Speakers: Mario Bevilacqua, director of the Culture and Image Study Center of Rome and president of the national edition of GB Piranesi’s texts, Alberta Campitelli, Councilor for the PNRR, Jubilee and Major Events of the Rome-Centro Municipality, Marcello Fagiolo, art historian , Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, manager at the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity, MIC, Francesco Scoppola, Architect and restorer. Francesco Del Sole, editor of the volume, will be present
Landscapes of stone and greenery is a literary adventure that brings together different souls (architects, landscape architects, archaeologists, writers, art historians, conservators) linked by a single common thread: the profound esteem towards Vincenzo Cazzato. In configuring a tribute to the scholar, the volume has become an opportunity to gather over 50 experts of international standing who, with their essays, have given shape to that synthesis contained in the title of the book itself and which follows the main themes around which the various sections of the volume rotate. The stone is the image of the depth of a scholar who, over the last forty years, has dedicated his life to the research and valorization of the architectural and landscape heritage with a particular look at Salento, a region in which the stone transforms from an obstacle in building material, blending with nature. The greenery is a reference to the sensitive eye of an architect who was able to describe the sacred value of the garden in beautiful pages which are still a point of reference in the international academic community today. Finally, the landscape is a trait d’union, a horizon of research of great relevance and irrepressible charm that harmoniously brings together stone and greenery.
The volume was created by the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Salento, Laboratory of History, Representation and Survey of Architecture and urban centres, in agreement with the Superintendence of Archaeological Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Brindisi and Lecce, the Center for Studies on Culture and Image of Rome and the Association of Parks and Gardens of Italy. With the patronage of: Benetton Studies Research Foundation; Historic Gardens Network; FAI, Delegation of Lecce; Villas and gardens of Puglia; Garden Club Lecce.
Francesco Del Sole, former official at the Culture Directorate of the Municipality of Milan, has been a researcher in History of Architecture at the University of Salento since 2019. Member of editorial boards of scientific journals in the sector, over the years he has been in charge of research for public bodies and institutions as well as visiting professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. He wrote a monograph entitled Journey into Wonder: describe, imagine, re-build (2019) which received national and international recognition. His research was funded by the European Union due to the transversal nature of the studies, which investigate architecture in relation to other humanistic disciplines such as art history, artistic literature, philosophy and urban planning.
