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Beginning with the origins of Western philosophy, the profound creation of the Hellenic genius, Reale presents an appreciation of the Naturalists, the Sophists, Socrates, and the Minor Socratics. Special attention is paid to the Eleatics because their problems decisively mark Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. Interpretation of the Sophists benefits from the recent reevaluation of their thought. Socrates himself would be inconceivable without the Sophists since he is one of them. Socrates is given major prominence. Plato, Aristotle, and all of Hellenistic philosophy are deeply impregnated with his words and spirit. The teachings of the Minor Socratics are interpreted as one-sided reductions of the pluralistic values of Socratic thought and as anticipations of some issues that explode later in the Hellenistic Age. There are two appendices. The first concerns Orphism and contains a series of documents indispensable for the comprehension of some aspects of pre-Socratic and Platonic thought. The second explains the key to understanding the message of the Greeks—the message of “theorein”.

This first book about Palazzo di Montecitorio, examines the Baroque building through a photographic review of etchings and paintings featuring the palazzo, executed between the 17th and 19th centuries. The current building was commissioned by Pope Innocent X from Gian Lorenzo Bernini as a future residence for the Ludovisi family. Bernini, an interpreter of the true essence of Roman Baroque, designed a building which, in terms structure and decoration, was suited to the lie of the land. In fact, the facade of the palazzo, which is slightly curved, follows the line of the artificial hill, and the roughly-hewn stones, from which leaves and broken branches emerge, simulate a building constructed on bare rock.

Questo volume affronta le questioni riguardanti la redazione grafica, scritta e soprattutto disegnata, del lavoro di restauro, sia in campo universitario che professionale. Con ricchezza d’illustrazioni si danno i necessari ragguagli sull’insieme di elaborati che il restauro comporta, da quelli di rilievo architettonico e del degrado, alle carte tematiche, restitutive, di ricerca storica ed alle tavole di progetto. Seguono norme riguardanti le convenzioni grafiche per le campiture, le caratterizzazioni dei materiali e del loro stato di conservazione, l’individuazione delle fasi costruttive, il formato e la presentazione dei disegni, in linea con le prescrizioni fornite dal M.BB.CC.AA.