The ‘Leonardo Project’ by Cassiano dal Pozzo. ‘Scientific’ apographs between art, architecture and engineering

Full Professor of History of Architecture - University of Naples Federico II, PhD in History of Architecture and Urban Planning, director of the scientific journal Eikonocity (FeDOA Press) and of the series “UrbsHistoriaeImago. History and Image of Territories, Urban Centers and Architectures” and “History and Iconography of Architecture, Cities and European Sites” (CIRICE-FeDOA Press), and director of CIRICE - Interdepartmental Center for Research on Iconography of the European City, Federico II University of Naples.His main studies concern: the thought of Leonardo and its influence on architecture and engineering in the Southern Italy during the Modern age; public works in Naples and in the Kingdom during the Bourbon period; the spread of the Vanvitellian language in the Russian context during the eighteenth century; the Digital History applied to archival documents and to historical cartography of Naples. He has published among numerous studies: Istituzioni e trasformazioni urbane nella Napoli dell’Ottocento (1985), Opere pubbliche e tipologie urbane nel Mezzogiorno preunitario (1992), Napoli millenovecento. Dai catasti del XIX secolo ad oggi (with G.C. Alisio, 2000), Antonio Rinaldi architetto vanvitelliano a San Pietroburgo (with G. Kjučarianc e P. Miltenov, 2003), Architettura e urbanistica dell’età borbonica. Le opere dello Stato, i luoghi dell’industria (with G. Matacena, 2004), Leonardo da Vinci. Il Codice Corazza nella Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli (2011), Leonardo e il Rinascimento nei Codici napoletani. Influenze e modelli per l’architettura e l’ingegneria (ed. with Maria Rascaglia, 2020), Forma Urbis Neapolis. Genesi e permanenza del disegno della città greca (with A. Mele e T. Tauro, 2023).

Research fellow at CIRICE (Interdepartmental Research Center on the Iconography of the European City at the University of Naples Federico II), she is editor-in-chief of the journal Achademia Leonardi Vinci for FedOA University Press (University of Naples Federico II), member of the Editorial Board of the journal Leonardiana (Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa–Rome), and Corresponding Member of the Ente Raccolta Vinciana. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Nuova Fondazione Rossana e Carlo Pedretti and is Curator of its artistic, bibliographic, and archival heritage.Formerly dedicated to Vasarian studies, her current research focuses on Leonardo’s manuscripts, with particular attention to issues related to their reception and historiographical fortune between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries in the fields of art, architecture, and engineering. One line of research is specifically devoted to the figure of Carlo Pedretti, aiming to define his role and significance within the historiography of Leonardo studies.