{:en}PRESS RELEASE (2/1/2018)
Thursday, Jan. 4, a Loano will take place a new round of the Books under the tree organized by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano in collaboration with the Convent of Mount Carmel.
At 4 p.m., in the Council Chamber in Doria Palace, the volume “Mount Carmel by Loano - since 1609 a carmelite presence between history and current events”.
“The idea of a publication on Mount Carmel had been in the air for some time. - explain the Discalced Carmelite Fathers, editors of the work - In fact, the previous and successful work by Fr. Angelico Carattino was out of print and almost unobtainable. During the celebrations for the fourth centenary of the founding of the convent in 2009, the idea began to take shape. Particularly during the conference of distinguished scholars on history, architecture, restoration, iconography, spirituality and current events. In that happy circumstance of the jubilee, a text was thought of in order to share with a wider audience the results of those researches, which by their quality take stock to date of the historical research in being in the different disciplines.
However, the effort put into the restoration work on the complex at the time did not allow for dedication to the publication project, which therefore could not be completed. Only this year, during a pause in the restorations, did it begin to take concrete form again to completion. After revising, by the individual authors, their respective essays, renewing much of the photographic documentation, correcting drafts and captions we can say that we have reached the final act of printing.”
The volume contains texts by authoritative authors such as: Silvano Giordano, Marco Gazzoli, Anastasio Roggero, Federico Barbieri, Saverio Sturm, Franco Boggero, Antonio Arecco, Lauro Magnani, Laura Stagno e John Grossi-Bianchi (designer and construction manager), who edited the essay on the restorations. And it is enriched with photographic images made by photographer Alberto Lagomaggiore.
In addition to including the conference papers, the work presents an updated section on restoration and an interesting reflection on modern-day Carmelite life by Father Federico Barbieri. The coordination of the publication was handled by architect Nicholas Buogo.
“We joined this cultural initiative with great interest," say Mayor Luigi Pignocca and Councillor Remo Zaccaria - commissioned by the Provincial Superior Fathers of the Discalced Carmelites of the Genoese Province and the Prior Father and Community of Mount Carmel. The volume pays tribute to the magnificent complex founded by the Doria family and is a work that will enrich the historical library of the people of Lovlio and all lovers of the history, art and landscape of western Liguria.”
The volume will be available for purchase in Common to Loano and in the Convent of Mount Carmel.
AUTHORS ESSAYS
Silvano Giordano
Born March 10, 1957 in Pietrabruna IM, a Discalced Carmelite religious since 1974 and ordained priest in 1983. Doctorate in Church History - Invited Professor of Early Modern History at the Faculty of Church History and Cultural Heritage of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and Professor at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of the Teresianum in Rome
Mark Gazzoli
Born in Bagnolo San Vito (MN) December 22, 1956, Discalced Carmelite friar since 1974 and priest in 1983. Degree in Psychology- Provincial Superior of the Ligurian Province of the Carmelites from 2011 to 2014- In charge of the restoration of Mount Carmel of Loano- currently a missionary in Cameroon.
Anastasius Roggero
Ottavio Roggero born in Pietrabruna (IM) April 2, 1939, Discalced Carmelite since 1956 and priest since 1963. Doctorate in Church History - Former Provincial Superior of the Ligurian Province of the Carmelites - Author of the volume GENOA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE TERESIAN REFORM IN ITALY (1584-1597) - Procurator of the Missions of the Ligurian Province of the Carmelites - Editor of the magazine Amicizia Missionaria - Pastoral charge of pilgrims at the Shrine of the Infant Jesus in Prague.
Federico Barbieri
Born in Rosate (MI) May 14, 1958, entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites in 1975 and was ordained a priest in 1984. Baccalaureate in Theology - Former Prior of Mount Carmel in 2009 year of the Fourth Centenary of the Founding of the Convent - Author of the Guide to Mount Carmel Convent by Loano
Xavier Sturm
Associate Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Roma Tre. He holds a degree in architecture from Rome and a PhD in History of Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Florence.
Since 1997, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Architecture of Valle Giulia; since 2002, he has been a research appointee at the Center for the Study of Culture and Image in Rome; and since 2006, he has been a researcher at the Department of Architecture of Rome 3.
A scholar of the architecture of religious orders in the modern age, he has delved into the typologies of the Discalced Carmelites in the Spanish-American and European worlds, developing three monographs in 2002, 2006, 2012, the first of which, L'Eremo di Montevirginio e la tipologia del Santo Deserto (Rome 2002), was awarded the 2005 De Angelis d'Ossat Prize for young scholars in History of Architecture.
A member of the research groups for the Atlas of the Baroque in Italy, he contributed to the regional volumes on Lazio (2002), Tuscany (2007) and Umbria (2012), developing research on the historical heritage in the vast area of Roman influence and on the Italian and European popularization of the Baroque language, updating the artistic biography of some protagonists, such as Carlo Fontana and his circle.
In addition to studies on the urban history of Rome's capital and on the relations between Northern Romanticism and Italian architects of the early 20th century, in recent years he has deepened investigations into the relations between the theatrical and scenic culture of Italian courts with those of France, the North, and Habsburg Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.
He has contributed to national and international conferences, exchanges and research groups, establishing organic collaborations with universities and academies in Sweden, Belgium, Hungary, Colombia, and Egypt.
Franco Boggero
Art historian coordinating director of the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the Metropolitan City of Genoa and the provinces of Imperia, La Spezia and Savona
Antonio Arecco
He graduated in Literature from the University of Genoa in 1950, taught literary subjects for 40 years and was “Secolo XIX” correspondent from Loano for more than 10 years. In 1982, he published “Chi me veu ben me sbraggia... The folklore of childhood in Liguria with special reference to Loano and its surroundings,” which was followed by numerous other publications, mainly on local history, culture and tradition: Loano, but also Borghetto Santo Spirito and Boissano are the communities that Arecco investigates and recounts.
Finally, he wrote the History of the Diocese of Albenga, volume III of which is currently being published.
Lauro Magnani
Full professor at the University of Genoa where he teaches History of Modern Art and History of Modern Art of European Countries. Pictorial and sculptural production between the 16th and 18th centuries, the relationships between artist, patron and public, religious iconography, and the reading of the living spaces of the aristocracy constitute the lines of his research. Author of a monograph on Luca Cambiaso (1995), he was among the curators of exhibitions devoted to the painter in the United States in Austin, Genoa and Germany between 2006 and 2007. In addition to the works, essays, monographs, and exhibitions devoted to artistic personalities of the seventeenth century and to the problems of the Baroque in Genoa, he has dealt with the activities of artists such as Correggio, Barocci, Caravaggio, Puget, and Rembrandt, with publications in several European countries. As part of his numerous studies on the image of religious subjects, he recently edited (2016) a volume of the journal Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà, entitled Image, meditation, vision. On the subject of historical gardens, he published a monograph in 1987 - The Temple of Venus - now in its 3rd edition. Summer Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington (1997), to the American institution he returned in 2001 and to collaborate in 2006 on the International Forum on Garden City in Wuhan, China. Since the 1970s he has taken part in the debate on issues of cultural heritage protection. In this perspective, he has edited several volumes devoted to the historical sites of the University of Genoa. He also teaches courses for the Master's Degrees in Digital Humanities and Electronics, and with colleagues at the Polytechnic School has experimented with the use of computer techniques applied to the study of cultural heritage. He is Director of the School of Specialization in Historical and Artistic Heritage. A member of several scientific committees of journals, he is the editor of the Visual Arts and Cultural Heritage series of the University Press of the University of Genoa.
Laura Pond
Associate professor at the University of Genoa, coordinates the University's Graduate Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage. He teaches “History of the Art of Liguria in the Modern Age” and “Iconography and Iconology.” He is a member of the teaching board of the Doctorate in the Study and Enhancement of Historical, Artistic-Architectural and Environmental Heritage, and of the School of Specialization in Historical-Artistic Heritage, at the same university. He works as scientific advisor to the Museum of the Prince's Palace, Genoa. His research activities - of which papers at conferences, essays, articles in scholarly journals and monographs give account - are focused on certain privileged areas of investigation, including themes of religious (biblical, hagiographic, apocryphal) and secular iconography (with attention, for example, to the characters and fortune of the representation of Alexander the Great), as well as the different sides of the themes of Vanitas and the depiction of religious otherness in the early modern age. He has devoted numerous publications to the analysis of patronage and collecting in Genoa and Liguria between the 16th and 18th centuries, with particular attention to the role of the Doria princes of Melfi (from Andrea I to Giovanni Andrea IV), in the broad articulation of their interventions in the territory, referring to the foundation, decoration and endowment of furnishings of a large number of residences, churches and convents.
John Grossi-Whites
A classical high school graduate, he majored in architecture in Genoa. After finishing his studies, he collaborated for ten years, as an expert in the subject, with Prof. Tiziano Mannoni in the course of Survey and Analysis of Ancient Monuments at the Faculty of Architecture in Genoa. He has been freelancing for thirty years in the field of architecture and restoration for public and private entities, and since 2001 he has been the owner of the architectural firm Grossi-Bianchi and Associates. He has collaborated since 1988 with the Ligurian Province of Discalced Carmelites for which he has designed and directed several restoration projects in Italy and abroad. He is passionate and expert in traditional building materials and techniques and to their reinterpretation in a contemporary key for sustainable design. He has taught in numerous professional training and refresher courses in the disciplines of restoration and bioarchitecture..
Alberto Lagomaggiore, a resident of Milan, but born in 1964 in Genoa and in this city, after graduating from Classical High School, graduated from the Faculty of Architecture with a thesis on Urban Planning and Photography, alternates the ’activity as a professional photographer between personal research on the territory, numerous book publications, collaborations with publishers and magazines, advertising agencies and companies, assignments of public and private entities and teaching as a tenured teacher of the technique and language of photography in state high schools of address.{:}
