The City as Palimpsest/II. Tracks, views and narrations on the complexity of historical urban contexts: Memories, stories, images

Francesca Capano, architect and historian of architecture and cities, PhD in History of Criticism of Architecture, has been collaborating since 2002 at Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Iconografia della Città Europea (CIRICE) at Naples University Federico ll. She has received national scientific awards (ASN 2012-2016) and is the holder of History of Architecture course at Neapolitan University. She took part in national and international conferences, also published many essays and two monographs, among which: Caserta, La città dei Borbone oltre la Reggia (1750-1860) / Caserta, The Bourbon city beyond the Royal Palace (1750-1860), Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane 2011; Misura e rappresentazione della capitale, Territori e città nelle carte di Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni e Luigi Marchese / Measure and representation of the capital, Territories and Cities in the maps by Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni and Luigi Marchese, in ‘Il Mezzogiorno e il Decennio’: architettura, città, territorio’ / The Southern Italy and the Decade: Architecture, the City, the territory, edited by A.Buccaro, C.Lenza, P.Mascilli Migliorini, Napoli, Giannini Pubblishing 2012; Gli archivi fotografici per la Storia dell’Architettura e del Paesaggio / Photographic Archives for History of Architecture and Landscapes, in “Eikonocity” no. 1, 2016; Il Sito Reale di Capodimonte. Il primo bosco, parco e palazzo dei Borbone di Napoli, Federico II University Press, 2017.

Massimo Visone, architect and PhD, is research fellow (2018) at the University of Naples Federico II. He taught at the Italian Institute of Human Sciences (2008), Academy of Fine Arts of Naples (2009-2010) and University of Naples Federico II (2010-2016). He has been approved for the national scientific role of Associate professor in History of Architecture (2015-2024). Visone took part in national and international research groups, conferences and seminars (Brussels, Dortmund, Geneva, London, Santiago de Compostela). Visone is in the scientific committee of the Grupo de Investigación Iacobus (University of Santiago de Compostela), in the editorial board of book series and peer-reviewed journals (class A journals: Confrontiand Quintana), member of the Research Centre on the Iconography of the European City (University of Naples Federico II), and secretary of Docomomo Italy. He wrote several contributions on English gardens and historical landscape. He edited exhibitions and published papers on urban iconography and architectural history in books, conference proceedings and peer-reviewed journals; amongst the others: Villa Reale (2003, 2012), Villa d’Elboeuf (2008, 2014), Castel Capuano (2011, 2013), Poggio Reale (2013, 2016), Palazzo Donn’Anna (2017), Palazzo Penne (2018), and 1783 Messine earthquake (2018). He published Napoli «Un gran Teatro della Natura» (Naples 2013), updated the notes of the book Napoli (2016) by Cesare de Seta, and edited Time Frames: Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage (London-New York 2017).