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Il teatro di Mevaniola: nuove osservazioni

Abstract

The Roman theatre of Mevaniola (location Pianetto near Galeata, FC), excavated between 1960 and 1962 by the Archaeological Superintendence of Emilia-Romagna, is still today, more than forty years since its discovery, little known and studied, both for the paucity of the preserved remains and for its special architectural form. With this work we sorted out the scanty documentation concerning the theatre, retracing the steps of the excavation and of the restoration works, and we arrived at an innovative historical reconstruction of the theatre complex through a careful analysis of its parts and accurate work based on architectural comparisons. The Mevaniola theatre is a unicum, in terms of planimetry, among the ancient theatres in Italy, and is the last and the most northern of the peninsula to be built according to mixed architectural models, both Greek and Roman, that developed in central Italy in the early 2nd century BC.