Ferdinando Zanzottera

After recalling the effects of the major earthquakes that have devastated Norcia and the Valnerina over the centuries, the author offers a series of reflections on the interactions between earthquakes and reconstruction, considering it as a physical phenomenon that is never exclusively architectural, but one characterized by profound urban, economic, social, cultural, religious, and anthropological-ritual implications, in which sacred images and relics have played a significant role...