Il ghetto racconta roma / The Ghetto Reveals Rome (English and Italian Edition) - Softcover

Fiorentino, Luca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8849208243 ISBN 13: 9788849208245

Publisher: Gangemi Editore, 2010

Synopsis

Benjamin walked down from the Capitoline Hill towards the Circus Flaminius in order to reach the other Jews on the banks of the Tiber River at the Tiberina Island. They, who had been Roman Jews for more than a century, would welcome the Jewish slaves brought to Rome because of the victory of Titus. The Rabbi of the Scola Catalana was witnessing the demolition of the Ghetto, where he was born, and the rapid changes occurring in that part of the city, until the construction of the new Synagogue and of the new Umbertine buildings. His great grandson, Gabriele, is now gazing at the restoration works that are being carried out. His eyes are lost in the ancient masonry and the monuments that are being unearthed. They are from the more than three centuries of confinement and they rest on ancient structures, those which two thousand years ago surrounded the Circus Flaminius. What you can see, what you can think and how you can follow the path of memory between reason and fantasy. The Roman Ghetto was established by papal edict in 1555, Jews were locked in its walls at night and forced to live under strict restrictions. The ghetto was abolished some 300 years later, when the walls of the ghetto were finally demolished in 1888. (Italian and English facing text)

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About the Author

LUCA FIORENTINO is an engineer, specialized in building consolidation, preservation and urban planning. He was born in Rome in 1954, and has five children. He has been the promoter of various projects related to Jewish Culture, of the re-launching of the Jewish Cultural Heritage in the early 1980s, and in 1999-2000, of the financing and restoration of the Jewish Community Museum and of the building complex of S. Bartolomeo at the Tiberina Island and of the Torre de' Caetani. He was the consultant on Subsoil Technology of the former Mayor of Rome, Rutelli, and one of the planners and designers of the restoration projects carried out in the Roman Ghetto on behalf of the Lazio Region. He was the co-author of Guida all'Italia Ebraica (Guide to the Jewish Italy) and author of L'ebreo senza qualità (A Jew without qualities) .In collaboration with other authors he also wrote and published Il recupero del Ghetto (The restoration of the Ghetto) Il Ghetto di Roma (The Ghetto of Rome) and L'arte ebraica a Roma e nel Lazio (Jewish Art in Rome and Lazio).

Edition details

• Publisher: Gangemi Editore
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8849208243
• ISBN 13: 9788849208245
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 171