Introduzione: dall’Antiquario Flegreo al Castello di Baia

• Autores: Fausto Zevi
• Localización: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité, ISSN 0223-5102, Vol. 122, Nº. 2, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Il nuovo museo del castello di Baia), págs. 339-344
• Idioma: italiano
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  • To give a brief history of archaeological research in the Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean Fields), from the 18th century they became the most important aspect of the Grand Tour because they combined the beauty of their locations with the suggestion of remembrances of the Odyssey and Virgil and a natural curiosity, represented by the impressive phenomenon of secondary vulcanism and bradyseism : at Pozzuoli, the columns of the so-called Tempe of Serapide emerged from the salty water and there are lithofagous borings at varing heights of the shaft, which seem to represent almost a timeframe for the alternating evolution of the land. The sculptures and inscriptions came to light at different times, coming together at the Museum of Naples, displayed only in a few cases, with the majority being stacked in the deposit : the requirement of a local museum, that restored a specific historical personality to a key region in the history of the peninsula, being the temporary solution of the Antiquario Flegrea at Pozzuoli whose life nevertheless did not even last 10 years, finishing with the bradyseism of 1969 that undermined the structure. From that moment it reopened the problem of the Museum of Flegran, whose site, since the 1970s, had been identified at the Castle of Baia, which, moreover had allowed a very difficult restoration only in order to achieve the existing arrangement, in which, thanks above all to the commitment of the Neapolitan superintendent assisted by a group of young scholars (authors of the articles that follow, to the present) set up (and today open to the public) 54 new rooms, distributed in groups according to the five principal localities (Cuma, Pozzuoli, Baia, Miseno, Literno) that, thanks also to recent excavations, allowed the coming together.