Introduzione alla sezione tematica Edifici d'autore.Estetiche e Ideologie nella narrazione dei monumenti

This thematic session of the journal is devoted to to expressions of creative writing inspired by monuments. Our aim is to understand how and why diverse re/constructions of their specific genesis, descriptions of architectural features, explanations of symbolism, histories of mentors, sponsors and artists generate over/interpretations in the form of essays, short stories, historical novels and poems. Each article will investigate the ways in which writers, while speculating on and verbally reconstructing a monument, can instil aesthetic and ideological appreciations. The narration of monuments will have been examined with particular reference to: - polysemantic buildings, rooted in a specific place and historical context, but also open to multiple intercultural elaborations; - modes of constructing, restructuring or contesting historical identities and cultural memories; - stimuli for the imagery, through which mythical figures and events are evoked.