Gianicolense is the 12th ''

quartiere A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the title of (). Formed a ...

'' of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q. XII. It belongs to the

Municipio XI Municipio XI (or Municipality 11) is one of the 15 administrative subdivisions of the city of Rome in Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists ...

and

Municipio XII Municipio XII is an administrative subdivision of the city of Rome. It was first created by Rome's City Council on 19 January 2001 and it has a president who is elected during the mayoral elections. Originally called ''Municipio XVI'', since 11 ...

. It takes its name from the

Janiculum The Janiculum (; ), occasionally known as the Janiculan Hill, is a hill in western Rome, Italy. Although it is the second-tallest hill (the tallest being Monte Mario) in the contemporary city of Rome, the Janiculum does not figure among the pro ...

hill, which lies in the nearby ''

rione A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the title of (). Formed a ...

Trastevere Trastevere () is the 13th of Rome, Italy. It is identified by the initials R. XIII and it is located within Municipio I. Its name comes from Latin (). Its coat of arms depicts a golden head of a lion on a red background, the meaning of which i ...

and whose western extremities correspond to the area of Monteverde.

History

The quarter is full of historical vestiges, being close to the ancient city: here stood the ''

Horti Caesaris The Horti Caesaris (''Gardens of Caesar'') was the name of two parks belonging to Julius Caesar in Rome. Quirinal These were located at Porta Collina on the Quirinal. As the Servian Wall had lost its defensive function by this time and had be ...

'', a number of pagan places of worship, and some Christian and Jewish catacombs, like the catacombs of Pontian and

San Pancrazio The basilica of San Pancrazio (; ) is a Catholic minor basilica and titular, conventual, and parish church founded by Pope Symmachus in the 6th century in Rome, Italy. It stands in via S. Pancrazio, westward beyond the Porta San Pancrazio tha ...

, underneath the same name basilica. In ancient times, the territory was crossed by the Via di Monteverde, which used to be a cross street of the

Via Portuense The Via Portuensis was an ancient Roman road, leading to the Portus constructed by Claudius on the right bank of the Tiber, at its mouth. It started from the Pons Aemilius, and the first part of its course is identical with that of the Via Campana ...

and whose initial stretch corresponds to the current Via Giuseppe Parini, and by the Via Vitellia, that linked the Janiculum with the Tyrrhenian coast. In the 17th century, the merger of several vineyards led to the creation of

Villa Doria Pamphili The Villa Doria Pamphili is a seventeenth-century villa with what is today the largest landscaped public park in Rome, Italy. It is located in the quarter of Monteverde, on the '' Gianicolo'' (or the Roman Janiculum), just outside the Porta San ...

, which hosts the ''casino'' designed by

Alessandro Algardi Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 – June 10, 1654) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome. In the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major rivals ...

. The villa was the scene of bloody battles during the 1849 defense of the

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. The villa was expropriated and opened to public in 1972, and it is currently the largest public park in Rome. The expansion of the quarter began, on the basis of the 1909 town plan, in the area close to the

Janiculum walls The Janiculum walls (Italian: Mura gianicolensi) are a stretch of defensive walls erected in 1643 by Pope Urban VIII as a completion of the Leonine wall (defending the Vatican Hill) and for a better protection of the area of Rome rising on the r ...

, near Via Carini and Piazza Rosolino Pilo: the area, which took the name of Monteverde Vecchio, is characterized by refined cottages with gardens. The expansion continued in the Fascist era, when the public housing buildings nicknamed ''Grattacieli'' ("skyscrapers") were built along Via di Donna Olimpia. Also, the ''Ospedale del Littorio'' (which later was named ''Ospedale San Camillo'') and the apartment blocks in the area of Monteverde Nuovo were built in that period.

Geography

The ''quartiere'' is located in the western part of the city, near the

. It includes the urban zones 16D ''Gianicolense'' and 16X ''Villa Pamphili'', and a great part of the urban zone 16A ''Colli Portuensi''. The western portion of the quarter is commonly referred to as Monteverde, after the lower part of the

hill. Monteverde (Italian for ''green mountain'') presumably takes its name from the green-yellowish

tuff Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock co ...

that was mined from the quarries that were scattered in the territory.

Boundaries

The quarter borders, to the north, with ''quartiere'' Aurelio (Q. XIII), from which it is separated by the portion of Via Aurelia Antica between Via della Nocetta and Piazzale Aurelio. It also borders with ''rione''

, whose boundary is marked by the stretch of the Janiculum walls between

Porta San Pancrazio Porta San Pancrazio is one of the southern gates of the Aurelian walls in Rome, Italy. The gate houses the National Association of Garibaldi Veterans and Survivors along with the Garibaldi Museum (also dedicated to the Italian Partisan Division ...

(Piazzale Aurelio) and

Porta Portese Porta Portese is an ancient city gate, located at the end of Via Portuense, where it meets Via Porta Portese, about a block from the banks of the Tiber on the southern edge of the Rione Trastevere of Rome, Italy. History The gate was built in ...

. Eastward, the quarter borders with ''quartiere''

Portuense Portuense is the 11th of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q.XI. The toponym is also used to indicate the urbanistic area 15b, in the Municipio XV. The population of the urbanistic area amounts to 30.362 inhabitants. There is also a (s ...

(Q. XI), whose border is defined by Via Portuense, Via Ettore Rolli and another stretch of Via Portuense, up to Largo Gaetano La Loggia. To the south, Gianicolense borders with ''

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, from which it is separated by the stretch of Via Portuense between Largo Gaetano La Loggia and Via del Casaletto. To the west, the quarter borders with ''suburbio''

Gianicolense Gianicolense is the 12th ''Quarters of Rome, quartiere'' of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q. XII. It belongs to the Municipio XI and Municipio XII. It takes its name from the Janiculum hill, which lies in the nearby ''Rioni of Rome, r ...

: the boundary is outlined by Via del Casaletto, Piazzetta del Bel Respiro and Via della Nocetta.

Odonymy

The territory of ''quartiere'' Gianicolense is crossed by the eponymous circonvallazione and by Via dei Colli Portuensi, a thoroughfare which was built in view of the

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as part of the so called ''Via Olimpica'', a road axis that was aimed to connect

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with the

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. Odonyms of the quarter can be categorized as follows: * Architects related to Villa Doria Pamphili, near the villa, e.g. Via

, Via Francesco Bolognesi, Via Basilio Bricci, Via

Andrea Busiri Vici Busiri Vici was long-flourishing dynasty of French-Italian architects formed by the union of the French Beausire family with the Vici family of Arcevia. The progenitor of the French side of the dynasty was Jean Beausire (1651–1743), whose desce ...

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Giovanni Battista Falda Giovanni Battista Falda (Valduggia 7 December 1643–22 August 1678, Rome) was an Italian people, Italian architect, engraving, engraver, and artist. He is known for his engravings of both contemporary and antique structures of Rome. Biograp ...

; * Authors and poets, near Porta Portese, e.g. Piazza

Flavio Biondo Flavio Biondo (Latin Flavius Blondus) (1392 – June 4, 1463) was an Italian Renaissance humanist historian. He was one of the first historians to use a three-period division of history (Ancient, Medieval, Modern) and is known as one of the ...

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Guido Guinizelli Guido Guinizelli (1276) was an Italian love poet and is considered the "father" of the Dolce Stil Novo. He was the first to write in this new style of poetry writing, and thus is held to be the '' ipso facto'' founder. He was born in, and later ...

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Giambattista Marino Giambattista Marino (also Giovan Battista Marini) (14 October 1569 – 26 March 1625) was a Neapolitan poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his epic '. The ''Cambridge History of Italian Literature'' thought him to be "one of ...

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Vincenzo Monti Vincenzo Monti (19 February 1754 – 13 October 1828) was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar, the greatest interpreter of Italian Neoclassicism in all of its various phases. His verse translation of the ''Iliad'' is considered o ...

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Alfredo Oriani Alfredo Oriani (; 22 August 1852 in Faenza – 18 October 1909 in Casola Valsenio) was an Italian author, writer and social critic. He is often considered a precursor of Fascism, and in 1940 his books were placed on the ''Index Librorum Prohibit ...

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Giuseppe Parini Giuseppe Parini (23 May 1729 – 15 August 1799) was an Italian satirist and Neoclassicism, Neoclassical poet. Biography Parini (originally spelled Parino) was born in Bosisio Parini, Bosisio (later renamed Bosisio Parini in his honour) in Brianz ...

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Cesare Pascarella Cesare Pascarella (28 April 18588 May 1940), was an Italian dialect poet and a painter. He was appointed to the Royal Academy of Italy in 1930. Biography Pascarella was born in Rome on 28 April 1858. He began his career as a journalist and ill ...

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Ippolito Pindemonte Ippolito Pindemonte (November 13, 1753 – November 18, 1828) was an Italian poet. He was an exponent of Italian neoclassicism and pre-romanticism, with poems of the pastoral genre and related to graveyard poets style. Biography Ippolito Pi ...

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Carlo Porta Carlo Porta (15 June 17755 January 1821) was an Italian poet, the most famous writer in Milanese (the prestige dialect of the Lombard language). Biography Early life and education Carlo Porta was born in Milan to a well-to-do family. His fath ...

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Giovanni Prati Giovanni Prati (27 January 1815 – 9 May 1884) was an Italian poet and politician. Biography Prati was born in Comano Terme, province of Trento, then part of the Austrian Empire. He sudied law at the university of Padua. He was a close frie ...

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Niccolò Tommaseo Niccolò Tommaseo (; 9 October 1802 – 1 May 1874) was a Dalmatian Italian linguist, journalist and essayist, the editor of a (''A Dictionary of the Italian Language'') in eight volumes (1861–74), of a dictionary of synonyms (1830) and other ...

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Lorenzo Valla Lorenzo Valla (; also latinized as Laurentius; 1 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, rhetorician, educator and scholar. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine w ...

; * Diplomats, in the area of Villa Flora, e.g. Via Isacco Artom, Via

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, Viale Giovanni Di Giura, Viale Antonio Negrita, Via Giuseppe Tornielli; * Heroes of the

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in Monteverde Vecchio and near Villa Doria Pamphili, e.g. Via

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Felice Cavallotti Felice Cavallotti (6 November 1842 – 6 March 1898) was an Italian politician, poet and dramatic author. Biography Early career Born in Milan, Cavallotti fought with the Hunters of the Alps, Garibaldian Corps in their 1860 and 1866 campaign ...

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Francesco Daverio Francesco Daverio (April 3, 1815 in Varese – June 3, 1849 in Rome) was a patriot of the Italian unification, Chief of Staff of the Roman Republic, and an engineer, who died on the Janiculum defending the ''Casino dei quattro venti''. Daverio ...

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Luigi Mercantini Luigi Mercantini (20 September 1821 – 17 November 1872) was an Italian poet and writer, who took part in the movements for the Italian unification in the late 19th century. He is better known for his poem ''"La spigolatrice di Sapri"'', depicting ...

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Benedetto Musolino Benedetto Musolino (8 February 1809 – 15 November 1885) was an Italian soldier and politician, who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1876 and later a member of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy. Musol ...

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Ippolito Nievo Ippolito Nievo (; 30 November 1831 – 4 March 1861) was an Italians, Italian writer, journalist and patriot. His ''Confessions of an Italian'' is widely considered the most important novel about the Italian ''Italian unification, Risorgimento'' ...

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Rosolino Pilo Rosolino Pilo, or Rosalino Pilo (Palermo, 15 July 1820 – San Martino delle Scale, 21 May 1860) was an Italian patriot. Life He was the fourth son of Count Gerolamo di Capaci of the Pilo family, and Antonia Gioeni of the Princes of Bologna a ...

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Carlo Pisacane Carlo Pisacane, Duke of San Giovanni (1818–1857) was an Italian patriot and one of the first Italian socialist thinkers. He was an early advocate of propaganda by deed, arguing that violence was necessary not only to draw attention to, or gen ...

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Aurelio Saffi Marco Aurelio Saffi'' (13 August 1819 – 10 April 1890) was a Roman and Italian politician, active during the period of Italian unification. He was an important figure in the radical republican current within the Risorgimento movement and close t ...

; * Latinists, in the south-eastern part of the quarter, e.g. Via

Gino Funaioli Junius Philargyrius (Philargirius, Filargirius) was an early commentator on the '' Bucolica'' and '' Georgica'' of Vergil, dedicated to a certain Valentinianus. He was a member of the Junia gens, active in Milan. The commentary is preserved in tw ...

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, Via Vincenzo Ussani, Via Tommaso Vallauri, Via Pier Vettori; * Local toponyms, e.g. Via Fonteiana, Viale di Villa Pamphili, Via degli Orti Gianicolensi, Via Vitellia * Philanthropists, in the eastern part of the quarter, e.g. Via

Virginia Agnelli '' Donna'' Virginia Bourbon del Monte dei principi di San Faustino (24 May 1899 – 30 November 1945) was the wife of Edoardo Agnelli and the mother of Gianni Agnelli. Biography Born in Rome, she was the daughter of Carlo Bourbon del Monte, ...

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Laura Mantegazza Laura may refer to: People and fictional characters * Laura (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the name * Laura, muse of Petrarch's poetry * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cno ...

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; * Physicians, near the San Camillo-Forlanini hospital, e.g. Via Roberto Alessandri, Via

Edoardo Bassini Edoardo Bassini (April 14, 1844 – July 19, 1924) was an Italian surgeon born in Pavia. In 1866 he received his medical degree from the University of Pavia, and afterwards joined the Italian Unification movement as an infantry soldier under ...

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Amico Bignami Amico Bignami (15 April 1862 – 8 September 1929) was an Italian physician, pathologist, malariologist and sceptic. He was professor of pathology at Sapienza University of Rome. His most important scientific contribution was in the discovery of ...

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Carlo Forlanini Carlo Forlanini (11 June 1847 – 25 May 1918) was a medical doctor and professor at the Universities of University of Turin, Turin and University of Pavia, Pavia. He was also the inventor of artificial pneumothorax, which was the primary treatm ...

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Ferdinando Palasciano Ferdinando Palasciano (June 13, 1815 – November 28, 1891) was an Italian physician and politician, considered one of the forerunners of the foundation of the Red Cross. Biography Born in Capua (Campania, then part of the Kingdom of Naples), h ...

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Pietro Valdoni Pietro Valdoni (February 22, 1900 - November 23, 1976) was a clinical surgeon and professor at Sapienza University of Rome, Sapienza University of Rome. He represents the incarnation of the professional scientist, erudite and essayist of conside ...

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Francesco Maidalchini Francesco Maidalchini (21 April 1631 – 13 June 1700) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Early life Maidalchini was born 12 April 1631 in Viterbo, the son of Andrea Maidalchini and Pacifica Feliziani. His father was the br ...

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* Prominent women Via di Donna Olimpia; within Villa Doria Pamphili, e.g. Viale

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Giovanni Caselli Giovanni Caselli (8 June 1815 – 25 April 1891) was an Italian priest, inventor, and physicist. He studied electricity and magnetism as a child which led to his invention of the pantelegraph (also known as the universal telegraph or all-purpose ...

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Quirino Majorana Quirino Francesco Valentino Majorana (28 October 1871 – 31 July 1957) was an Italian experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena during his long career as professor of physics at the Universities of Rome, the Polytechn ...

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Places of interest

Civil buildings

hospital, in Via Bernardino Ramazzini (1930–35). * Villa Santucci Maraini, in Via Bernardino Ramazzini. 19th-century

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house.

Religious buildings

, in Piazza San Pancrazio. * Nostra Signora de la Salette, in Piazza Madonna de la Salette. 20th-century church (1957–67). * Nostra Signora di Coromoto *

Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in the western suburbs of Rome, dedicated to the Transfiguration of Jesus. History The church was built in 1934–36, designed by Tullio Ross ...

, on Piazza della Trasfigurazione *

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, in Monteverde

Archaeological sites

* Sepulchres in Via Giuseppe Ravizza. 2nd-century sepulchres.

Parks

. * Villa Baldini, in Largo Alessandrina Ravizza. 18th-century villa. * Villa Flora or Villa Signorini, in Via Portuense. 19th-century villa.

Other

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. * International Museum of Cinema and Entertainment. * Eugenio Morelli Anatomy Museum.

References

External links

* * {{Cite web, url=https://www.comune.roma.it/web/it/municipio-xii.page, title=Municipio Roma XII, website=Roma Capitale Urban zones of Rome