Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy
by
Hannah Malone
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
In the nineteenth century, new cemeteries were built in many Italian cities that were unique in scale and grandeur, and which became destinations on the Grand Tour. From the Middle Ages, the dead had been buried in churches and urban graveyards but, in the 1740s, a radical reform across Europe prohibited...