The essay provides a description of the suburbs of Rome, a space at the Aurelian walls sparsely inhabited but not completely abandoned. Since the early years of the sixteenth century, one of the forms of the use of the 'suburb' was that, even if not the predominant, hunting. The first paper describing the countryside close to the walls, the paper of the "Land of Rome", developed and published in 1547 by the Eufrosino Volpaia, was followed by a description of some paths hunting Domenico Boccamazza of 1548, in which points of reference to the direction of the roads were the houses, bridges, waterways. These sources illustrate the arrangement of the territory around Rome next to the city walls, and allow a good approximation, to reconstruct the lines of the main roads and infrastructure and settlements present. The road routes that, in 1548, departing from the city gates stretch between marshes, Sterpari, meadows, cultivated fields and open areas for grazing and move between springs, inns, country houses, towers, chapels and churches in the country, exceeding some I was in the presence or not of bridges, and along some woods and the ruins of structures of houses, bridges and ancient aqueducts.
Il saggio offre una descrizione del suburbio di Roma, uno spazio presso le mura aureliane scarsamente abitato ma non completamente abbandonato. Fin dai primi anni del XVI secolo, una delle forme di utilizzo dell’area del ‘suburbio’ fu quello, anche se non il prevalente, della caccia. La prima carta descrittiva della campagna prossima alla cinta muraria, la carta del “Paese di Roma”, elaborata e pubblicata nel 1547 da Eufrosino della Volpaia, fu seguita dalla descrizione di alcuni percorsi di caccia di Domenico Boccamazza del 1548, nella quale i punti di riferimento per la direzione delle strade da percorrere erano i casali, i ponti, i corsi d’acqua. Tali fonti illustrano l’assetto del territorio intorno a Roma prossimo alle mura della città, e permettono, con buona approssimazione, di ricostruirne le direttrici delle principali vie di comunicazione e le infrastrutture e gli insediamenti presenti. I percorsi stradali che, nel 1548, partono dalle porte urbiche si distendono fra pantani, sterpari, prati, campi coltivati e aree libere destinate al pascolo e si muovono tra fontanili, osterie, casali, torri, piccole cappelle e chiese di campagna, superano alcuni fossi in presenza o no di ponti, e costeggiano alcune selve e i ruderi di strutture di ville, ponti e acquedotti antichi .
La Campagna romana nel XVI secolo. Attività economiche e insediamenti nel suburbio / Esposito, Daniela. - STAMPA. - II(2011), pp. 289-310.
La Campagna romana nel XVI secolo. Attività economiche e insediamenti nel suburbio
ESPOSITO, Daniela
2011
Abstract
The essay provides a description of the suburbs of Rome, a space at the Aurelian walls sparsely inhabited but not completely abandoned. Since the early years of the sixteenth century, one of the forms of the use of the 'suburb' was that, even if not the predominant, hunting. The first paper describing the countryside close to the walls, the paper of the "Land of Rome", developed and published in 1547 by the Eufrosino Volpaia, was followed by a description of some paths hunting Domenico Boccamazza of 1548, in which points of reference to the direction of the roads were the houses, bridges, waterways. These sources illustrate the arrangement of the territory around Rome next to the city walls, and allow a good approximation, to reconstruct the lines of the main roads and infrastructure and settlements present. The road routes that, in 1548, departing from the city gates stretch between marshes, Sterpari, meadows, cultivated fields and open areas for grazing and move between springs, inns, country houses, towers, chapels and churches in the country, exceeding some I was in the presence or not of bridges, and along some woods and the ruins of structures of houses, bridges and ancient aqueducts.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.