Biographical dictionary of Architects and Engineers of the pre-unification Nineteenth century in the Neapolitan archives

Alessandra Veropalumbo

Biographical dictionary of Architects and Engineers of the pre-unification Nineteenth century in the Neapolitan archives

Authors

Alessandra Veropalumbo

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8596-5890

Keywords:

Archival and bibliographical research, architectural and urban transformations, historical iconography

Synopsis

Publishers: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Storia e iconografia dell’architettura, delle città e dei siti europei

Pages: 566

Language: Italian

Abstract: The Dizionario biografico degli Architetti e Ingegneri dell’Ottocento preunitario negli Archivi napoletani constitutes the first attempt at rationalizing research on those technicians who, both in the Bourbon period of the nineteenth century and during the French Decade, were trained in Naples and were later active in the capital and the Kingdom. The unpublished character of the volume is ensured by the entries of those figures known only in part, with fragmentary news scattered in the various bibliographic sources based on specific themes of the urban transformation of the city and the Kingdom. The dictionary, by collecting what has been published and found in archival sources, becomes an important tool for the recognition of their professional activity, showing a repertoire of considerable interest for artistic quality or very incisive urban proposals in the historical fabric of the city. The rich Dizionario biografico is preceded by a first part of analysis and in-depth study, relating to the critical fortune of the typology used, the bureaucratic and administrative apparatuses of the Kingdom, and professional training.

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Author Biography

Alessandra Veropalumbo, University of Naples Federico II

Alessandra Veropalumbo is a research fellow in History of Architecture at the Department of Architecture (DiARC) of the University of Naples Federico II. After obtaining a PhD in History and Conservation of Architectural Heritage and Landscape, since 2017 she collaborates with the Interdepartmental Research Center on the Iconography of the European City (CIRICE) dealing with the study of the cartography and iconography of Naples and methodological applications for the enhancement and protection of cultural heritage. She is part of the editorial board of the journal Eikonocity (cl. A - Anvur) and Achademia Leonardi Vinci. She is professor of the course Art, Techniques and Digital Cultures at the Master of Science in Design for the Built Environment at the University of Naples Federico II. Her interests include the history of Naples, with particular reference to the urban layout and the nineteenth-century figures active in the transformation of the city, Digital Urban History, and the urban viceregal fortresses of the South.