Document Type
Book Review
Department
Art and Art History (Pomona)
Publication Date
1996
Keywords
Renaissance, architecture, public institutions, Genoa, alberghi dei poveri, Naples, Palermo
Abstract
Since Michel Foucault's seminal essays on the asylum, prison, and hospital in the Age of Reason, architectural historians have begun to examine these major public institutions in the life and pathology of the early modern city. This volume extends the disciplinary focus to public assistance and monumental housing for the poor, which was often closely related in ideology and building type to asylums, prisons, monasteries, and hospitals. Foucauldian intellectual history and urban history, with its concomitant interest in vernacular traditions, converge in this comparative study of Genoa, Palermo, and Naples during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Recommended Citation
Gorse, George. Rev. of "Il Trionfo Della Miseria, Gli Alberghi dei Poveri di Genova, Palermo e Napoli," by A. Guerra, E. Molteni and P. Nicoloso. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 55 (1996), pp. 351-353.
