Dizionario biografico degli Architetti e Ingegneri dell’Ottocento preunitario negli Archivi napoletani

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 The unpublished character of the volume is ensured by the entries of those figures known only in part, with fragmentary news scattered in the various bibliographic sources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.