The fifth national edition of the Archives Night will be held on Friday 7 June. The event, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture (MiC) and organized in collaboration with the General Directorate of Archives, sees the participation of the Capitoline Superintendence together with over 450 entities and 22 territorial and thematic networks. The 2024 edition of the Night of the Archives explores the theme of the Passions, which will be developed with a meeting at the Capitoline Historical Archive and with a guided tour of the Campitelli, Sant’Angelo, Regola and Pigna districts.
The Capitoline Historical Archive, on the occasion of the 175 years of the Roman Republic, proposes Passione Repubblicana. Papers and notes from the Roman Republic, a meeting of words and notes on the music that animated the republican ideal of 1849, with the participation of Nicola Piovani in dialogue with a wind quintet of the Army Band led by Maestro Major Filippo Cangiamila. An exhibition itinerary will also be set up of the most relevant documents (some unpublished) relating to the Roman Republic and preserved in the Institute’s funds, which can be visited until 9pm and in the following days during the opening hours of the Archive to the public (9am-4pm, from Monday to Friday), until August 31st.
The itinerant guided tour of Love, Politics, Debates, Madness, Art, Archaeology, however, through the narration of specific episodes and the reading of passages, will illustrate examples of loving, political, artistic and intellectual passion. Curated by archaeologists and art historians of the Superintendence with materials from the archives of the Directorate for Interventions on Monumental Buildings, the itinerary begins at the archaeological area of the Theater of Marcellus where some pages on the love liaison between Vittoria Colonna and Umberto will be read and illustrated Boccioni;in Piazza Mattei we will talk about the Turtle Fountain among legends, anecdotes and documents; the itinerary will continue towards Piazza Cairoli with the monument to the irredentist Federico Seismit Doda, protagonist of the Risorgimento and minister of Francesco Crispi; a different passion, the intellectual one, will constitute the theme contained in the unpublished documents linked to the events of the discovery and museum creation of the complex of San Paolo alla Regola at the beginning of the 1980s, which saw the architect Italo Insolera and the archaeologist Lorenzo opposing each other Quilici; the itinerary will end at the Sacred Area of Largo Argentina where the “duel” between the archaeologist Giuseppe Marchetti Longhi and the art historian and architect Antonio Muñoz will be told through archive documents.
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