An important appointment is that of March 20 in the Sala Pietro da Cortona of the Capitoline Museums. Indeed the presentation of the volume Guide to rebel Rome, opens a cycle of further volume presentations newly published, related to topics on Rome and its cultural heritage. The initiative, a moment of discussion and scientific dissemination, is promoted and implemented by the Department of Culture, Creativity and Artistic Promotion - Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage.
An event that offers the possibility of a different reading of the city of Rome, outside the consolidated schemes of a "sly" city and of power, beyond the stereotyped images offered by cinema and literature. Through "real" or specious itineraries in various areas of the city, from the historic districts to the suburbs, the authors of the "Guide" have traced testimonies of various kinds, from epigraphs, to monuments, to houses inhabited by artists, to places where great episodes and small ones, to biographies of historical and non-historical figures, which constitute a different and alternative network for getting to know the city.
And it is precisely these different fragments of memory that outline an alternative vision of the city that passes through the best-known moments of the collective and individual "rebellion" from antiquity to the present day: from Menenio Agrippa to Giordano Bruno, the Roman Republic, the Resistance, the student movement, to the occupations of houses. A book that welcomes episodes of cultural and social dissent or disobedience, exploring Rome, as well as in its consolidated beauty, in its constant "exceptionality".
Rosa and Viola Mordenti, Lorenzo Sansonetti and Giuliano Santoro have been recounting and drawing it for several years in various capacities: in the newspapers, on posters on the walls, through academic studies and social movements. Authors who are at the same time journalists, architects, graphic designers, activists and who have decided to exchange knowledge, skills and sensitivity to rediscover the places and stories of the city in which they live.
