La specificità conservativa dell’Occidente europeo e cristiano nelle sue antiche origini; il culto delle reliquie, il concetto di autenticità e l’opera di Cassiodoro
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In the Roman world, both legal and regulatory foundations existed for the protection of the city’s heritage, along with administrative structures capable of enforcing these laws. However, the conditions for the development of the concept of restoration, linked to the principle of “authenticity”, only emerged later, following a series of extraordinary events between the 4th and 6th centuries that upheaved the known world, marking the end of the ancient era. A fundamental role was played by the cult of relics: the ‘true’ remains of saints and martyrs, which were considered essential for the entire Church to be based on something real. The work of Cassiodorus was a crucial link between various needs (building the new and preserving the old) and cultures (pagan, barbarian, and Christian), from which emerged a new and more modern understanding of restoration. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, two parallel, seemingly contradictory paths were followed: the destruction of the pagan world, its idols, and its magnificent and burdensome monuments, and, simultaneously, the emergence of a new sense of preserving the remnants of a world that increasingly appeared distant. From the syncretism of Roman Law, which codified respect for monuments and civic goods, and Christian culture, which valued the preservation of culture and its material testimonies, emerged early anticipations of the modern sentiment of conservation, restoration, and the transmission of the “authentic” remains of the past to the future. In this regard, the work of Cassiodorus deserves particular attention. It would later be revisited, with alternating results, by Pope Gregory the Great and many other Pontiffs after him, who issued the first modern ordinances for the protection of antiquities
keywordsRelics, authenticity, CassiodorusBiografia dell'autoreSapienza Università di Roma – alessandro.pergoli@fastwebnet.it |
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