The "taking" of Rome by the Savoy on September 20th 1870, near the town gate that leads into the Via Pia, attaches to this part of the city a new important meaning: the collapse of the papal power and the annexation of Rome to the Kingdom of Italy. The first preoccupation of the new rulers, as soon as settled, is the shape to give to the new capital, a Third Rome to overlap to the Rome of the popes and to that of the Roman emperors. Via Pia, now renamed “Venti Settembre”, the religious and landscape axis is to become the focal infrastructure of the new liberal city. The building of the new Ministry of Finance, made between 1872 and 1878 on a project by Raffaele Canevari, hydraulic engineer, near Porta Pia is the first symbolic building of the Italian Rome, which catalyzes the debate on the National style, on the relationship between tradition and innovation, between monumentality and functionalism, on the use of materials, on the convenient decoration.
La “presa” di Roma da parte dei Savoia il 20 settembre 1870, nei pressi della porta urbana che immette nella via Pia, attribuisce a questa parte della città un nuovo importante significato: il crollo del potere papale e l’annessione di Roma al Regno d’Italia. Il primo assillo dei nuovi governanti, appena insediatisi, è quale forma dare alla nuova capitale, una Terza Roma da sovrapporre a quella dei papi e a quella degli imperatori romani. La via Pia, ora rinominata via XX Settembre, da asse religioso e paesaggistico è deputato a trasformarsi nell’infrastruttura nevralgica della nuova città liberale. Il palazzo del nuovo Ministero delle Finanze, realizzato tra il 1872 e il 1878 su progetto dell’ingegnere idraulico Raffaele Canevari in prossimità di Porta Pia, è il primo edificio-simbolo della Roma italiana, che catalizza il dibattito sullo stile nazionale, sul rapporto tra tradizione e innovazione, tra monumentalismo e funzionalismo, sull’utilizzo dei materiali, sull’ornato conveniente.
I ministeri di Roma Capitale / Tabarrini, Marisa. - STAMPA. - (2011), pp. 31-38.
I ministeri di Roma Capitale
TABARRINI, Marisa
2011
Abstract
The "taking" of Rome by the Savoy on September 20th 1870, near the town gate that leads into the Via Pia, attaches to this part of the city a new important meaning: the collapse of the papal power and the annexation of Rome to the Kingdom of Italy. The first preoccupation of the new rulers, as soon as settled, is the shape to give to the new capital, a Third Rome to overlap to the Rome of the popes and to that of the Roman emperors. Via Pia, now renamed “Venti Settembre”, the religious and landscape axis is to become the focal infrastructure of the new liberal city. The building of the new Ministry of Finance, made between 1872 and 1878 on a project by Raffaele Canevari, hydraulic engineer, near Porta Pia is the first symbolic building of the Italian Rome, which catalyzes the debate on the National style, on the relationship between tradition and innovation, between monumentality and functionalism, on the use of materials, on the convenient decoration.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


