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ruins in ruins

(Dec. 17) comes just a few weeks after the collapse of the ceiling of the Domus Aurea, the news of landslides and irreparable destruction caused serious alarm at Pompeii in environments in America is still interested in the culture who are wondering, in the words of the New York Times, "What do the bureaucracy and cultural institutions [Italian] as well as offering places to a number of idlers indecent" (New York Times, 10:12:10). Two days later, the same day, ie main newspaper of world, come back by revealing that "the problems of Pompeii reflect an incurable old-old."

not for quotation, I would like to note that the shock registered on the world today might have been lower if he had given any weight to the warnings contained in my book, "Rome," published in several languages \u200b\u200b(German edition, 1996; Italian, 1999 English, 2005), in which signal years in Italy the existence of a cross between political corruption and criminal negligence in the conservation of artistic heritage, to which I gave the name of "complex political and archaeological" and which is due to the slow decline of what is one of the few remaining treasures of our country.

edition in which I have so far treated more extensively on the subject, one published in London in 2005 and currently being updated for publication in the United States, under the title "accessibility and preservation of Roman monuments" observed: "The public now has less access to the main monuments of Rome than he has ever had for several decades in this part ... The visitors are glad to hear the beginning of highly publicized archaeological campaigns, but what this ad does not say is that for every new archaeological site that is open, two are closed ... Galleria Borghese has been restored and repainted, but the work was so inept that pieces of the rear facade fell to the ground just a few months inauguration ... The roof of the basilica of S. Pancrazio has collapsed there during the renovation, but then ... Corruption and political patronage have always plagued Italy since the end of World War II, in Rome, but the phenomenon has had something special: a symbiotic relationship between political power and vast army of antiquarians, archaeologists and restorers, overflowing from the ranks of beneficiaries of nepotism and cronyism ... "