Author: Sofia Bernasconi

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#21-936-406 #9 Argument_08: “De gli obelischi di Roma”, Michele Mercati. I chose this book, because it has a lot of things in common with my book. The first thing that I noticed was the title, which points already out two similarities with my book: the obelisks and the city of Rome. The title of this…

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#21-936-406 #9 I started the Task, rereading my text that I wrote for the Greetings and picking out the most important words. Then I opened Alice, I chosed the Xenotheka Library and as topic of conversation I chosed “architecture”. I began my research with the author’s name: Domenico Fontana. I was interested in how important…

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#21-936-406 #9 Della trasportatione dell’obelisco Vaticano et delle fabriche di Sisto V is a book written by Domenico Fontana and published in 1590. Fontana was an Italian architect from what is now Canton Ticino. After his move to Rome he was appointed architect of St Peter’s by Pope Sixtus V and thanks to this title…