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Review: "The aqueduct of Genoa"

Luciano Rosselli, Aqueduct of Genoa, 2009, Nuova Editrice Genovese

many Genoese know where it comes from the water that flows from their taps? Those who realize how much talent it took to design the water supply system of the city? How many know the story? Surely

Luciano Rosselli knows very well.

But knowing is not enough, we must also know how to describe and explain the technical aspects, showing the projects and the remains, leaving space and why not - even at that feeling of nostalgia for the good things of the past, which features the highly popular culture Genoa. Again, this certainly does not lack Rosselli.

"The Aqueduct of Genoa is the unique record of a search titan, is made between the dust of the archives, including many documents of the past, both on the field, covering every single meter of the ancient aqueduct Valley Bisagno, to discover the secrets of the specific features and beauty. The documentation is very thorough and complete, and there is no aspect of the aqueduct that is not touched: it starts from the history, architecture and switching hydraulic technique, to reach all'escursionistica.

Through the rich photographic color, you can appreciate the many architectural virtuosity that were used, since the seventeenth century, to improve the structure of the aqueduct, which was first built, Roman dates back to the first century BC Among

canal-, siphon-bridges, tunnels and cobbled paths, the author delves into the innermost loop of hydraulic lines, tracking with an expert eye to the succession of tracks over time, comparing them with the documents projects that preserve historical and non-produced, explaining the operation of the equipment and the telling human stories that relate to this incredible work.

And, as always, Genoa surprising, fascinating, surprising. Because the solutions adopted for this aqueduct are something unique, a typically Genoese ingeniously of Genoa. And Rosselli, camera strap, explores the infrastructure, even the most inaccessible, like a new Indiana Jones, to restore the image and allow even the less adventurous to observe and understand the work of man.

interesting is the technical and historical maps, complete with references and tables that have the power to set out clearly in the data memory. Really very welcome addition, the complete hiking guide, which features excellent references for a pleasant and scenic walks in the name of urban history. Complemented by a very complete chronological table that summarizes the last thousand years (!) History of the aqueduct.

The book presents in a form publishing very accurate and correct, both from the formal point of view from that of consultability, that you fully enjoy the pictures thanks to an excellent layout and generous size. The book is written in a competent but not pedantic, but technically smooth and exciting, with a spirit at the same time serious research and urban adventure, and can undoubtedly be counted among the best volumes of industrial architecture currently in circulation, no fan History Genovese Ligurian or ought to exhibit in their library.

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Review: "They left all"

John Merian, are all gone, 2010, SAGEP

Meriana John tells us the stories that no one tells. It speaks of the villages of the Apennines and their stories of isolation, loneliness and rural tradition. Places to which all fled, those who after the first, to "see the world", to "make a fortune." The depopulation of the valleys of Liguria, which affected the entire first half of the twentieth century, has weakened the economy and the environment mount, also doing some victim. The name of one of these victims is Reneusi, the most deprived and isolated village of the Apennines Genovese, of which there Meriana illustrates the daily life, with the familiarity and emotion of those who lived, albeit in the distant childhood. It is not only a record of material culture, but it's a little poetic compendium of humanity, which can not help but make a little 'heart, if only for the fact that this past, which takes color fictionalized here, although never to distance oneself from life, is still very close.

There is no official history for Reneusi for Cerisola and all other villages, like flies, undermining the coastal cool of the mountains. Then, based on the limited information available, Meriana creates a story without presumption, with the simplicity of people who want to restore to humanity left corner of the world, who wants to give voice to those who now no longer breath.

History Reneusi and tragedy that marked the end, like that of Cerisola and its anime, along with all the stories in the book is made up, excited as small events, events that never had the resonance outside their small area. Short flash , notes of micro, anthropology, heritage and a pinch of political criticism that return a multi-faceted vision and moving to the rapid passage of time and things that remain and that dissolve in that strange and jagged landscape that we call Liguria.

This book is not just a collection of fiction, but like others of the same genre released in recent years, is a small resource liguricità written with the talent of the narrator and the attention of the scholar.

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Ancient places of worship in Liguria 3

Marian Shrine Roverano at Carrodano

This is one of the oldest shrines in eastern Liguria, founded in 1350, with a story that is more than anything else, legend.

This story follows a narrative pattern used very often in the stories Marian apparitions, which means we will examine later.

On 7 September of a year unknown (some say between 1350 and 1352), two shepherds, one deaf and dumb from birth, were resting under an olive tree on Mount Roverano, not far from the small village of the needle.

Suddenly, they appeared a beautiful lady dressed in blue, of course, Madonna, addressing the silent girl, invited her to go and call the pastor of The Needle and bring him before him. Needless to say, the shepherdess miraculously acquired voice heard and went to call the pastor who saw, with half the population of the village, eagerly to see the Virgin. But the beautiful lady was already gone.

from an olive tree, however, hung a painting of the Madonna and Child. The pastor decided to take him to the rectory to fix it, then in the village church, but the next morning, the painting was no longer where she had left and only after a long search, was found on Mount Roverano, attached to the same olive day before.

was clear, then, that was in that place that the Virgin wanted to be worshiped and was immediately erected a chapel which was later extended several times until the current provision of 1875 (1).

But there is another miracle that, contrary to the article, is repeated every year, just 7 / 8 September, during the celebrations involving the inhabitants of The Needle and Time: The great flowering of olive trees.

is said, in fact, that the olive trees surrounding the shrine miraculous flowers during the procession which is completely out of season.

This tradition is very significant because it allows us to make a guess of interpretation of the entire legend.

First, the anniversary falls on the article 7 / 8 September (as the procession to Mount Dragnone), given that, according to the Gregorian calendar corresponds to the Nativity of Mary and, according to the custom of agriculture, marks the end of summer and crops.

It is quite likely, as we noted earlier, that the Catholic Church has superimposed on Marian devotion to pagan festivals, so the celebration of the Nativity of Mary may have been scheduled for that date in its place a ritual event before, maybe type of agriculture.

The coincidence of this period with the end of the harvest, in fact, it seems a good clue in this regard. Agricultural similar festivals have been celebrated since the dawn of agriculture, which does not seem strange that the fourteenth century Ligurian have wanted Madonna as the tutelary deity of that particular moment when everything becomes more precarious, we go into winter and only the hard work of summer-autumn can ensure the sufficiency of food preserved in the cold months.

As mentioned for the other laws examined so far, this "Lady of Rover" may just be an adjustment of a Christian deity rural much older, a great mother of fertility, the personification of the earth itself, which was revered perhaps in an attempt to extend some time the abundance of the harvest or, more likely, as a good omen for the next spring when nature, reminiscent of the devotion of the men fall, was generous in giving its fruits.

In this context, seem to fit consistently the "bloom miracle "of the olive trees that could have been introduced long ago, initially as a kind of symbolic ritual.

not a real flower, but, perhaps, an event where the branches of some trees were decorated with floral representations. Or the flowers could be painted or marked on the body with natural colors, print, similar to pintaderas prehistoric.

This practice may have been intended to "thank" the earth as given, and "invited" to do the same next year, when he wakes up from sleep unproductive winter.

This tradition could easily be reached, not so distorted, up to us and subsequently linked to the cult of the Madonna.

Also, remember that the flower can be considered, generally, a solar symbol, and thus have more significance in the agricultural culture, as the sun is the conditio sine qua non growth of crops. Engravings depicting the edge of the solar floral forms were found in great quantities in all rock sites of Liguria.

Finally, we note how the flower is related by affinity to the butterfly, a symbol of the soul separated from the body and, therefore, the spirit of the deceased.

return to the shrine, however, we find that the name "Rover" is derived from the Latin robur , with the meaning of "strength" or "strength" but also "oak." The oak, the most popular type of oak, takes its name from this root.

You can then reconnect the upstream Roverano with nature worship, this time in terms of trees. The symbolism of the tree, which we discussed briefly above, is, in addition to axis of the world, that of identification with the man. The tree, like man, is made of a log carrier, attached to the ground with his feet / roots, which expands in three dimensions thanks to its branches, arms.

Mount Rover is a necessary step to reach the Passo del Bracco, and thus, by a line of communication is also important in ancient times. It is not unlikely that it was a place of worship of some importance that the devotion of the villagers and pre-Roman, difficult to eradicate, was "justified" by the appearance of the Madonna that would, in a sense, sacred and profane space it would yield, therefore, acceptable attendance.

is likely that the Ligurian today without even knowing it, are attending the spiritual places of antiquity, as did their fathers and grandfathers before them, in a continuity fluid which, while changing objects of veneration, follows a spontaneous drive to certain destinations, or a tradition so strong that fail to become extinct, despite the millennia.

Notes:

(1) FM Bussetti, G. Maura Costa, The Sanctuaries of Liguria, Genoa, AGIS, 1980; M. Gamba, Marian Apparitions, Udine, Edizioni Segno, 1999

The facade of the sanctuary after the recent restoration

The painting shows the Virgin and Child