Il quartiere borbonico di via Morelli e la Caserma della Vittoria (La storia – Il palazzo – Gli arredi)

Abstract

The volume offers a historical reconstruction of the reasons and events connected to the transformation and construction of the urban passage including the Carabinieri barracks (formerly of the Cavalleria delle Due Sicilie), via Domenico Morelli (formerly via Pace) and the so-called 'Bourbon tunnel': a story of great interest from a historiographical point of view, not only for the widespread architectural quality of the projects of the architect Errico Alvino, but also for the documentation of an important phase of Neapolitan nineteenth-century urban planning, between the last Bourbon phase and the early Savoyard age. The overall project for this area, in the mid-nineteenth century, seems, in fact, to intelligently translate into urban terms many of the various themes that were stirring in Naples during those years: both of a cultural, social and economic nature, as well as of a political and military. The investigation focuses, also with the aid of a precise reference to images and project drawings, on the architectural details and furnishings of the military building.