Gianicolense is the 12th ''

quartiere A (; plural: ) is a territorial subdivision of certain Italian towns. The word derives from (‘fourth’) and was thus properly used only for towns divided into four neighborhoods by the two main roads. It has been later used as a synonymous ...

'' of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q. XII. It belongs to the

Municipio XI Municipio XI (or Municipality 11) is one of the 15 administrative subdivisions of the city of Rome in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in ...

and

Municipio XII Municipio XII is an administrative subdivision of the city of Rome. It was first created by Rome's City Council on 19 January 2001 and it has a president who is elected during the mayoral elections. Originally called ''Municipio XVI'', since 11 ...

. It takes its name from the

Janiculum The Janiculum (; it, Gianicolo ), occasionally the Janiculan Hill, is a hill in western Rome, Italy. Although it is the second-tallest hill (the tallest being Monte Mario) in the contemporary city of Rome, the Janiculum does not figure among th ...

hill, which lies in the nearby ''

rione A (; plural: ) is a neighbourhood in several Italian cities. A is a territorial subdivision. The larger administrative subdivisions in Rome are the , with the being used only in the historic centre. The word derives from the Latin , the 14 su ...

Trastevere Trastevere () is the 13th ''rione'' of Rome: it is identified by the initials R. XIII and it is located within Municipio I. Its name comes from Latin ''trans Tiberim'', literally 'beyond the Tiber'. Its coat of arms depicts a golden head of a lio ...

and whose western extremities correspond to the area of Monteverde.

History

The quarter is full of historical vestiges, being close to the ancient city: here stood the ''

Horti Caesaris The Horti Caesaris (''Gardens of Caesar'') was the name of two parks belonging to Julius Caesar in Rome. Quirinal These were located at Porta Collina on the Quirinal. As the Servian Wall had lost its defensive function by this time and had been l ...

'', a number of pagan places of worship, and some Christian and Jewish catacombs, like the catacombs of Pontian and

San Pancrazio The basilica of San Pancrazio ( en, St Pancras; la, S. Pancratii) is a Roman Catholic ancient basilica and titular church founded by Pope Symmachus in the 6th century in Rome, Italy. It stands in via S. Pancrazio, westward beyond the Porta S ...

, underneath the same name basilica. In ancient times, the territory was crossed by the Via di Monteverde, which used to be a cross street of the

Via Portuense Via Portuensis was an ancient Roman road, leading to the Portus constructed by Claudius on the right bank of the Tiber, at its mouth. It started from the Pons Aemilius, and the first part of its course is identical with that of the Via Campana. The ...

and whose initial stretch corresponds to the current Via Giuseppe Parini, and by the Via Vitellia, that linked the Janiculum with the Tyrrhenian coast. In the 17th century, the merger of several vineyards led to the creation of

Villa Doria Pamphili The Villa Doria Pamphili is a seventeenth-century villa with what is today the largest landscaped public park in Rome, Italy. It is located in the quarter of Monteverde (Rome), Monteverde, on the ''Gianicolo'' (or the Roman Janiculum), just outsid ...

, which hosts the ''casino'' designed by

Alessandro Algardi Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 – June 10, 1654) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major ...

. The villa was the scene of bloody battles during the 1849 defense of the

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. The villa was expropriated and opened to public in 1972, and it is currently the largest public park in Rome. The expansion of the quarter began, on the basis of the 1909 town plan, in the area close to the

Janiculum walls The Janiculum walls (Italian: Mura gianicolensi) are a stretch of defensive walls erected in 1643 by Pope Urban VIII as a completion of the Leonine wall (defending the Vatican Hill) and for a better protection of the area of Rome rising on the rig ...

, near Via Carini and Piazza Rosolino Pilo: the area, which took the name of Monteverde Vecchio, is characterized by refined cottages with gardens. The expansion continued in the Fascist era, when the public housing buildings nicknamed ''Grattacieli'' ("skyscrapers") were built along Via di Donna Olimpia. Also, the ''Ospedale del Littorio'' (which later was named ''Ospedale San Camillo'') and the apartment blocks in the area of Monteverde Nuovo were built in that period.

Geography

The ''quartiere'' is located in the western part of the city, near the

. It includes the urban zones 16D ''Gianicolense'' and 16X ''Villa Pamphili'', and a great part of the urban zone 16A ''Colli Portuensi''. The western portion of the quarter is commonly referred to as Monteverde, after the lower part of the

hill. Monteverde (Italian for ''green mountain'') presumably takes its name from the green-yellowish

tuff Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock cont ...

that was mined from the quarries that were scattered in the territory.

Boundaries

The quarter borders, to the north, with ''quartiere'' Aurelio (Q. XIII), from which it is separated by the portion of Via Aurelia Antica between Via della Nocetta and Piazzale Aurelio. It also borders with ''rione''

, whose boundary is marked by the stretch of the Janiculum walls between

Porta San Pancrazio Porta San Pancrazio is one of the southern gates of the Aurelian walls in Rome, Italy. The gate houses the National Association of Garibaldi Veterans and Survivors along with the Garibaldi Museum (also dedicated to the Italian Partisan Division ...

(Piazzale Aurelio) and

Porta Portese Porta Portese is an ancient city gate, located at the end of Via Portuense, where it meets Via Porta Portese, about a block from the banks of the Tiber in the southern edge of the Rione Trastevere of Rome, Italy. History The gate was built in ...

. Eastward, the quarter borders with ''quartiere''

Portuense Portuense is the 11th ''Quarters of Rome, quartiere'' of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q.XI. The toponym is also used to indicate the urbanistic area 15b, in the Municipio XV. The population of the urbanistic area amounts to 30.362 in ...

(Q. XI), whose border is defined by Via Portuense, Via Ettore Rolli and another stretch of Via Portuense, up to Largo Gaetano La Loggia. To the south, Gianicolense borders with ''

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, from which it is separated by the stretch of Via Portuense between Largo Gaetano La Loggia and Via del Casaletto. To the west, the quarter borders with ''suburbio''

Gianicolense Gianicolense is the 12th ''quartiere'' of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q. XII. It belongs to the Municipio XI and Municipio XII. It takes its name from the Janiculum hill, which lies in the nearby ''rione'' Trastevere and whose weste ...

: the boundary is outlined by Via del Casaletto, Piazzetta del Bel Respiro and Via della Nocetta.

Odonymy

The territory of ''quartiere'' Gianicolense is crossed by the eponymous circonvallazione and by Via dei Colli Portuensi, a thoroughfare which was built in view of the

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as part of the so called ''Via Olimpica'', a road axis that was aimed to connect

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with the

Stadio Olimpico The Stadio Olimpico (English: ''Olympic Stadium'') is the largest sports facility in Rome, Italy, seating over 70,000 spectators. It is located within the Foro Italico sports complex, north of the city. The structure is owned by the Italian Na ...

. Odonyms of the quarter can be categorized as follows: * Architects related to Villa Doria Pamphili, near the villa, e.g. Via

, Via Francesco Bolognesi, Via Basilio Bricci, Via

Andrea Busiri Vici Andrea Busiri Vici (7 January 1818 – 12 November 1911) was a significant papal architect in Rome. He was descended from a long-flourishing dynasty of French-Italian architects formed by the union of the French Beausire family with the Vici family ...

, Via

Giovanni Battista Falda Giovanni Battista Falda (Valduggia 7 December 1643 – 22 August 1678 Rome) was an Italian architect, engraver and artist. He is known for his engravings of both contemporary and antique structures of Rome. Biography Falda was sent as a bo ...

; * Authors and poets, near Porta Portese, e.g. Piazza

Flavio Biondo Flavio Biondo (Latin Flavius Blondus) (1392 – June 4, 1463) was an Italian Renaissance humanist historian. He was one of the first historians to use a three-period division of history (Ancient, Medieval, Modern) and is known as one of the f ...

, Via

Guido Guinizelli Guido Guinizelli (ca. 1225–1276) was an esteemed Italian love poet and is considered the "father" of the Dolce Stil Novo. He was the first to write in this new style of poetry writing, and thus is held to be the ''ipso facto'' founder. He was bor ...

, Via

Giambattista Marino Giovanni Battista was a common Italian given name (see Battista for those with the surname) in the 16th-18th centuries. It refers to "John the Baptist" in English, the French equivalent is "Jean-Baptiste". Common nicknames include Giambattista, Gia ...

, Via

Vincenzo Monti Vincenzo Monti (19 February 1754 – 13 October 1828) was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar, the greatest interpreter of Italian neoclassicism in all of its various phases. His verse translation of the ''Iliad'' is considered ...

, Largo Alfredo Oriani, Via

Giuseppe Parini Giuseppe Parini (23 May 1729 – 15 August 1799) was an Italian enlightenment satirist and poet of the neoclassic period. Biography Parini (originally spelled Parino) was born in Bosisio (later renamed Bosisio Parini in his honour) in Brianza ...

, Via

Cesare Pascarella Cesare Pascarella (28 April 1858 - 8 May 1940), was an Italian dialect poet and a painter. He was appointed to the Royal Academy of Italy in 1930. Pascarella was born in Rome and initially was a painter. His literary activity began in 1881 wit ...

, Via

Ippolito Pindemonte Ippolito Pindemonte (November 13, 1753 – November 18, 1828) was an Italian poet. He was educated at the Collegio di San Carlo in Modena, but otherwise spent most of his life in Verona. He was born into an aristocratic family, and travelled a ...

, Via

Carlo Porta Carlo Porta (June 15, 1775 – January 5, 1821) was an Italian poet, the most famous writer in Milanese (the prestige dialect of the Lombard language). Biography Porta was born in Milan to Giuseppe Porta and Violante Gottieri, a merchant famil ...

, Via

Giovanni Prati Giovanni Prati (27 January 1815 – 9 May 1884) was an Italian poet and politician. Prati was born in Dasindo, province of Trento, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was educated in law at Padua. Adopting a literary career, he was inspired b ...

, Via

Niccolò Tommaseo Niccolò Tommaseo (; 9 October 1802 – 1 May 1874) was a Dalmatian linguist, journalist and essayist, the editor of a ''Dizionario della Lingua Italiana'' in eight volumes (1861–74), of a dictionary of synonyms (1830) and other works. He is ...

, Via

Lorenzo Valla Lorenzo Valla (; also Latinized as Laurentius; 14071 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, rhetorician, educator, scholar, and Catholic priest. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis that proved that the ''Don ...

; * Diplomats, in the area of Villa Flora, e.g. Via Isacco Artom, Via Luigi Corti, Viale Giovanni Di Giura, Viale Antonio Negrita, Via Giuseppe Tornielli; * Heroes of the

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in Monteverde Vecchio and near Villa Doria Pamphili, e.g. Via

Anton Giulio Barrili Anton Giulio Barrili (14 December 1836 – 14 August 1908), Italian novelist, was born at Savona, and was educated for the legal profession, which he abandoned for journalism in Genoa. He was a volunteer in the campaign of 1859 and served wit ...

, Via Stefano Canzio, Via Giacinto Carini, Via

Felice Cavallotti Felice Cavallotti (6 November 1842 – 6 March 1898) was an Italian politician, poet and dramatic author. Biography Early career Born in Milan, Cavallotti fought with the Garibaldian Corps in their 1860 and 1866 campaigns during the Italian ...

, Via Enrico Cernuschi, Via Francesco Dall'Ongaro, Via Francesco Daverio, Via Fratelli Bandiera, Via

Alberto Mario Alberto Mario (Lendinara, 4 June 1825 – 2 June 1883) was an Italian politician, journalist and supporter of Giuseppe Garibaldi.Alfonso Scirocco Garibaldi: Citizen of the World - 2007 Page 273 0691115400 "A month and a half after the fall of Pal ...

, Via

Luigi Mercantini Luigi Mercantini (20 September 1821 – 17 November 1872) was an Italian poet and writer, who took part in the movements for the Italian unification in the late 19th century. He is better known for his poem ''"La spigolatrice di Sapri"'', depicting ...

, Via Benedetto Musolino, Piazza

Ippolito Nievo Ippolito Nievo (; 30 November 1831 – 4 March 1861) was an Italian writer, journalist and patriot. His ''Confessions of an Italian'' is widely considered the most important novel about the Italian Risorgimento. Life Nievo was born and raised in ...

, Piazza Rosolino Pilo, Via

Carlo Pisacane Carlo Pisacane, Duke of San Giovanni (22 August 1818 – 2 July 1857) was an Italian patriot and one of the first Italian socialist thinkers. He argued that violence was necessary not only to draw attention to, or generate publicity for, a c ...

, Via Alessandro Poerio, Via Maurizio Quadrio, Via

Aurelio Saffi Aurelio Saffi (August 13, 1819 – April 10, 1890: full name Marco Aurelio Saffi) was a Roman and Italian politician, active during the period of Italian unification. He was an important figure in the radical republican current within the Risorgi ...

; * Latinists, in the south-eastern part of the quarter, e.g. Via

Gino Funaioli Junius Philargyrius (Philargirius, Filargirius) was an early commentator on the ''Bucolica'' and '' Georgica'' of Vergil, dedicated to a certain Valentinianus. He was a member of the Junia gens, active in Milan. The commentary is preserved in two ...

, Via Adolfo Gandiglio, Via Lorenzo Rocci, Via Vincenzo Ussani, Via

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, Via Pier Vettori; * Local toponyms, e.g. Via Fonteiana, Viale di Villa Pamphili, Via degli Orti Gianicolensi, Via Vitellia * Philanthropists, in the eastern part of the quarter, e.g. Via

Virginia Agnelli ''Donna'' Virginia Bourbon del Monte dei principi di San Faustino (Rome, 24 May 1899 – Pisa, 30 November 1945) was the wife of Edoardo Agnelli and the mother of Gianni Agnelli. Biography She was the daughter of Carlo Bourbon del Monte, Prince ...

, Via

Ludovica Albertoni Ludovica Albertoni (1473 - 31 January 1533) was an Italian people, Italian Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic noblewoman from the Renaissance period and a professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. The death of her husband prompted ...

, Via Francesco Catel, Piazzale Enrico Dunant, Via Caterina Fieschi, Largo

Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...

, Via Laura Mantegazza, Via Federico Ozanam, Largo Alessandrina Ravizza, Piazza Carlo Alberto Scotti; * Physicians, near the San Camillo-Forlanini hospital, e.g. Via Roberto Alessandri, Via

Edoardo Bassini Edoardo Bassini (April 14, 1844 – July 19, 1924) was an Italian surgeon born in Pavia. In 1866 he received his medical degree from the University of Pavia, and afterwards joined the Italian Unification movement as an infantry soldier under ...

, Via

Amico Bignami Amico Bignami (15 April 1862 – 8 September 1929) was an Italian physician, pathologist, malariologist and sceptic. He was professor of pathology at Sapienza University of Rome. His most important scientific contribution was in the discovery of ...

, Via

Alessandro Codivilla Alessandro Codivilla (21 March 1861 – 28 February 1912) was an Italian surgeon from Bologna and head of the surgical department of the hospital of Castiglion Fiorentino, known for his work in orthopaedics and first describing the pancreaticoduod ...

, Via Pio Foà, Piazza

Carlo Forlanini Carlo Forlanini (11 June 1847 – 26 May 1918) was a medical doctor and professor at the Universities of Turin and Pavia. He was also the inventor of artificial pneumothorax, which was the primary treatment method of pulmonary tuberculosis for t ...

, Via Edoardo Jenner, Via Arcangelo Ilvento, Via

Paolo Mantegazza Paolo Mantegazza (; 31 October 1831 – 28 August 1910) was an Italian neurologist, physiologist, and anthropologist, noted for his experimental investigation of coca leaves into its effects on the human psyche. He was also an author of fictio ...

, Via Ferdinando Palasciano, Via

Raffaele Paolucci Raffaele () is an Italian given name and surname, variant of the English Raphael. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Raffaele Amato, Italian mobster *Raffaele Cutolo, Italian mobster *Raffaele Ganci, Italian mobster *Raffaele Canton ...

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Bernardino Ramazzini Bernardino Ramazzini (; 4 October 1633 – 5 November 1714) was an Italian physician. Ramazzini, along with Francesco Torti, was an early proponent of the use of cinchona bark (from which quinine is derived) in the treatment of malaria. His most ...

, Via Pietro Valdoni; * Popes and cardinals, near Villa Doria Pamphili and San Pancrazio basilica, e.g. Via Cosimo de Torres, Via Giampaolo Della Chiesa, Via Ludovico di Monreale, Via Innocenzo X, Via

Leone XIII Pope Leo XIII ( it, Leone XIII; born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was the head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 to his death in July 1903. Living until the age of 93, he was the second-old ...

, Via

Francesco Maidalchini Francesco Maidalchini (21 April 1631 – 13 June 1700) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Early life Maidalchini was born 12 April 1631 in Viterbo, the son of Andrea Maidalchini and Pacifica Feliziani. His father was the b ...

, Via

Giuseppe Spina Giuseppe Maria Spina (11 March 1756 – 13 November 1828) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal. He was born in Sarzana to an aristocratic family, and moved to Rome to study jurisprudence and canon law. In 1796 he was ordained a priest and in 17 ...

* Prominent women Via di Donna Olimpia; within Villa Doria Pamphili, e.g. Viale

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, Viale

Maria Carta Maria Carta (24 June 1934 – 22 September 1994) was a Sardinian folk music singer-songwriter. She also performed in film and theatre. In 1975 she wrote a book of poetry, ''Canto rituale'' (Ritual Song). Throughout her 25-year career she cove ...

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Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even th ...

, Viale

George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wro ...

, Viale

Oriana Fallaci Oriana Fallaci (; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist and author. A partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, ...

, Viale Anna Frank, Viale

Natalia Ginzburg Natalia Ginzburg (, ; ; 14 July 1916 – 7 October 1991) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, fo ...

, Viale

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, Largo Giorgiana Masi, Viale

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, Viale

Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English Reform movement, social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during t ...

, Largo

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, Viale

Clara Wieck Schumann Clara Josephine Schumann (; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a ...

, Viale Sorelle Bronte, Viale

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, Viale 8 Marzo Festa della Donna. * Scientists and inventors in Nuovo Trastevere, e.g. Piazza Andrea Ampere, Via Jacopo Belgrado, Via

Giovanni Caselli Giovanni Caselli (8 June 1815 – 25 April 1891) was an Italian priest, inventor, and physicist. He studied electricity and magnetism as a child which led to his invention of the pantelegraph (also known as the universal telegraph or all-purpose ...

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Quirino Majorana Quirino Majorana (28 October 1871 – 31 July 1957) was an Italian experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena during his long career as professor of physics at the Universities of Rome, Turin (1916–1921), and Bologna (192 ...

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Giuseppe Ravizza Giuseppe Ravizza, a prolific typewriter inventor, was born in Novara, Italy in 1811 (died 1885), and spent nearly 40 years of his life obsessively grappling with the complexities of inventing a usable writing machine. He called his invention ' beca ...

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Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (; 12January 1925) was an Italian mathematician. He is most famous as the discoverer of tensor calculus. With his former student Tullio Levi-Civita, he wrote his most famous single publication, a pioneering work on the ...

Places of interest

Civil buildings

hospital, in Via Bernardino Ramazzini (1930–35). * Villa Santucci Maraini, in Via Bernardino Ramazzini. 19th-century

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house.

Religious buildings

, in Piazza San Pancrazio. * Nostra Signora de la Salette, in Piazza Madonna de la Salette. 20th-century church (1957–67). * Nostra Signora di Coromoto * Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo, on Piazza della Trasfigurazione *

Santa Maria Regina Pacis a Monte Verde Santa Maria Regina Pacis a Monte Verde is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in Monteverde, central Rome. History The first church for the Monteverde area was built in 1915. The present church was begun in 1925 but construc ...

, in Monteverde

Archaeological sites

* Sepulchres in Via Giuseppe Ravizza. 2nd-century sepulchres.

Parks

. * Villa Baldini, in Largo Alessandrina Ravizza. 18th-century villa. * Villa Flora or Villa Signorini, in Via Portuense. 19th-century villa.

Other

Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases The Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases (Italian: ''Istituto nazionale per le malattie infettive "L. Spallanzani"'') is an infectious disease hospital in the Italian city of Rome. The institute is named for the eighteenth- ...

. * International Museum of Cinema and Entertainment. * Eugenio Morelli Anatomy Museum.

References

External links

* * {{Cite web, url=https://www.comune.roma.it/web/it/municipio-xii.page, title=Municipio Roma XII, website=Roma Capitale Urban zones of Rome