Architecture, Death and Nationhood: Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy

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Hannah Malone (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Kevin Moloney (Ball State University, USA)

Architecture, Death and Nationhood

Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy

Hannah Malone (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), Kevin Moloney (Ball State University, USA)

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English

Routledge
18 September 2018

Theory of architecture; History of architecture; Religion: general; Human geography; The environment

Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture

In the nineteenth century, new cemeteries were built in many Italian cities that were unique in scale and grandeur, and which became destinations on the Grand Tour. From the Middle Ages, the dead had been buried in churches and urban graveyards but, in the 1740s, a radical reform across Europe prohibited burial inside cities and led to the creation of suburban burial grounds. Italy’s nineteenth-century cemeteries were distinctive as monumental or architectural structures, rather than landscaped gardens. They represented a new building type that emerged in response to momentous changes in Italian politics, tied to the fight for independence and the creation of the nation-state.

As the first survey of Italy’s monumental cemeteries, the book explores the relationship between architecture and politics, or how architecture is formed by political forces. As cities of the dead, cemeteries mirrored the spaces of the living. Against the backdrop of Italy’s unification, they conveyed the power of the new nation, efforts to construct an Italian identity, and conflicts between Church and state. Monumental cemeteries helped to foster the narratives and mentalities that shaped Italy as a new nation.

By: Hannah Malone (Freie Universität Berlin Germany)
Edited by: Kevin Moloney (Ball State University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138392694
ISBN 10: 1138392693
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 18 September 2018
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hannah Malone is a historian of architecture and modern Italy. After a doctorate at St John’s College Cambridge, she held a fellowship at the British School at Rome and studied fascist military cemeteries. As a Lumley Junior Research Fellow at Magdalene College Cambridge, she is currently working on the architect Marcello Piacentini.

Reviews for Architecture, Death and Nationhood: Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy

"""Informatively and comprehensively illustrated, impeccably referenced and written with wise and wide-ranging insights, this fascinating tome is a very important contribution to architectural, political and social history."" James Stevens Curl, Times Higher Education ""Thanks to her ambitious research in archives, print, and cemeteries, Malone is entirely persuasive as she draws out the ways in which the latter can be microcosmic renderings of the cities to which they are attached, or when she refers to them as conveying ‘purified images of the societies that they served’. Her thorough readings of spatial arrangements, in fact, highlight these cemeteries’ formal innovations in arranging and celebrating the dead in deliberate, self-conscious correspondence with new forms of state life. In this regard, the book repeatedly teases out instances in which the cult of the dead slipped out of the total grasp of the Church, becoming one of the new Italy’s canvases for developing secularism."" Mia Fuller, Association for the Study of Modern Italy"