Villa Corsini al Gianicolo.Trasformazioni polisemiche del verde nella pianificazione otto-novecentesca. Questioni aperte e problemi di restauro

Since ancient times the Pincio and the Janiculum Hill are home to villas. Furthermore, the sitès proximity to the Vatican makes it appealing to religious centers and the Renaissance of Tuscan families buildings related to the papal court. Within this system of buildings must remember the Casino Riario. This is the initial core of expanded by Corsini possessions, that during the seventeenth century, with Ferdinando Fuga, expand the palace in via Lungara and give a magnificent planning to the garden. Here the architectural components are emphasized scenically and become key elements also watching landscape. With the establishment of Roma Capitale green areas are becoming spaces of social representation. democratized landscape vision, namely, requires the construction of public walks like the one made to the Janiculum. this results in a radical change of the green meaning. Then it, the Corsini garden is transformed, broken down by ownership and use. The symbolic-dramatic system is deleted from an arrangement that does not take into account the existing structures. Now all this is an open issue and a topic of restoration