CASTEL SANT'ANGELO. MAUSOLEO DI ADRIANO. ARCHITETTURA E LUCE (Italian language)
This book traces the thousand-year history of the grandiose Mausoleum of Emperor Hadrian, from its construction in the 2nd century A.D. to abandonment, up to the looting of the barbarians in late antiquity.
It tells of
its rebirth in the Christian era, when it became Castel Sant'Angelo, the impregnable fortress where the popes took refuge during the sieges of the Landsknechts or the French.
It shows
the splendor of the papal apartments, decorated by the greatest artists of the Renaissance: Michelangelo, Sallustio Peruzzi, Antonio da Sangallo.
It reconstructs the
ancient appearance of the Aelius Bridge and the Mausoleum and reveals
the hidden symbolic meaning of its extraordinary architecture and the Burial chamber.
It shows
the very essence of Imperial Power, thanks to the magic illuminations discovered with Archaeoastronomy.