Marina De Franceschini will present her last book on archaeology, history and archaeoastronomy, dedicated to one of the most impressive buildings built by Emperor Hadrian, his Mausoleum, today's
Castel Sant'Angelo.
The book traces its thousand-year history, from its construction together with the Elio bridge to its gradual transformation into a defensive bastion and then into an impregnable fortress.
The historical events of the Castle are linked to those of the city of Rome, to the devastating sieges and looting suffered by the Goths and the Landsknechts.
They are also linked to the great popes of the Renaissance who called the major artists of the time to design and decorate their sumptuous apartments inside the Castle itself.
Thanks to the in-depth study of the remaining Roman structures, the author proposes
a new reconstruction of the ancient appearance of the Mausoleum and its decoration, with three-dimensional drawings.
The book has a preface by the
Director General Emeritus for Archeology at Mic, Anna Maria Reggiani and by the
architects Maria Rosaria Cundari and Giovanni Maria Bagordo.