Camillo Boito
Camillo Boito , writer and Italian architect born the October 30th 1836 with Rome, dead the June 28th 1914 with Milan.
Brother of Arrigo Boito, he is the author of the news Senso , which belongs to the collection Nouvelles vain stories , adapted to the cinema by Luchino Visconti, and of the news a body , adapted operated some by Kharálampos Goyós.
After having studied in Italy, Germany and Poland, he teaches and practical architecture and the restoration in Milan.
He also exploited a big role in the debate the restoration of the inheritance. In its test To preserve or Restore: the dilemmas of the inheritance , it puts in scene two characters, representatives symbolic systems of the positions of Eugene Purple-the-Duke and John Ruskin, which it makes dialog until proposing a synthesis and a kind of reconciliation between these points of view. It thus leaves a great place to the doubt of the expert, insists on the humility necessary of the restorer, but also on the utility of certain interventions. Its work will influence, in 1931, the writers of the Charte of Athens.
Works
- vain Stories (1876)
- New vain stories (1883)
- To preserve or Restore: Dilemmas of the inheritance (1893)
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