Alpis Poeninna. Grand Saint-Bernard. Une voie à travers l'Europe

Atti del Convegno Internazionale "La Transgiordania e le frontiere del Mediterraneo Medievale",BAR International Series, , 2012

The Little St. Bernard Hill is a typical example of transit place, used for thousands of years and only become frontier in the Modern Time, as consequence of defensive necessities brought about by military conflict between the central European States. It arose from chance circumstances, but this new rolerapidly transformed it into frontier between national States. Through this pass, cult place as early as prehistoric times and provided with service and cult places in Roman epoch, a much more considerable commercial flow than the Great St. Bernard’s crossed until the 13th century included, and until the15th century it was an effective instrument of political control by Savoyards, as it was located fairly in the centre of their duchy. Its position really causedit to be late used as frontier from the beginning of the 17th century, in order to oppose French monarchy’s military initiatives. From that moment on, theterritory around the Hill, realised by military engineers as the best position to defence, was actually progressively transformed into a unitary defensivecomplex. As a result, within about a century, taking the best advantage on the favourable natural conformation of those places, several undertakingstransformed the area between the village of Petosan (La Thuile) and the Hillpass into Aosta Duchy’s most complex and jointed defensive system, whichis actually its central core, flanked towards NW and SE respectively by the minor installations of the Allèe Blanche Glacier and Valgrisanche’s head.Archaeological analysis has allowed the building process to be followed, that is a simple front line, with exclusive outpost functions, which evolved by a second line and some infrastructures (barracks, depots and service roadnetwork), that progressively improved its functionality. As regards thesecond line, La Thuile Valley became a real citadel with imposing risen fortifications (between 1500 and 2700 meters a.s.l.), which featured the ridgesfor several hundred meters and overlooked wide entrenched plain fields, with triangular and pentagonal earthen ramparts, that also served to protect barracks and depots. The working of such complex defence system was ordered by means of specific rules, that stated any operation in case of attack,in order to block the access to the Aosta Valley. In this case, sapping activities were also expected, like bridge and communication trench demolitionas well as mining at the head of the glaciers. However, the archaeological method, apart from the great constructions relevant to the organization of defence, has also allowed to check field structures (shelters, bivouacs, entrenchments), arranged by small groups of moving soldiers, while penetratingthrough Aosta Valley’s territory. The scenery, that can be outlined, is a militarily occupied land to such an invasive extent that, although regarding aspan of three centuries only, the remains of defensive structures represent by far the most considerable and visible archaeological evidence of the whole history of that site.

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Millenario della nascita di San Bernardo delle Alpi, Edizioni Grossi, Domodossola, 2018

Atti delle giornate internazionali di studio “Luigi Zanzi”, Formazza 7-8 settembre 2017

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ESTRATTO da GEOGRAPHIA ANTIQUA, XXII, 2013 « D'Arrien à William Vincent : le Périple de Néarque et sa postérité »

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Translating cultures. Interpretations, adaptations, contaminations, reactions in history of Modern and Contemporary Europe (XVI-XXth centuries). Joint SAGAS-EUI-SNS Annual Seminar. XI seminario annuale Coordinamento: Rolando Minuti, Silvio Pons, Ann Thomson 21 marzo 2019 Dipartimento SAGAS, Università di Firenze

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L'Alpe Garina. Breve storia di un angolo del Canavese. Racconto classificato al 2° posto - borsa di studio da 1500 euro - al concorso 2015 per l'assegnazione di borse di studio di giornalismo in memoria di Giorgio Gardiol (patrocinato dal Comune di Pinerolo e presentato alla Tavola Valdese per accedere al finanziamento "Otto per Mille"), rivolto a giornalisti precari e ad aspiranti giornalisti in età tra i 22 e i 30 anni su tutto il territorio nazionale, sui temi dell'ecologia e della montagna. http://www.arcipiemonte.it/torino/articoli/borse-di-studio-giornalisti-ricordo-di-giorgio-gardiol * . Link sul luogo oggi: - TorinoSette “La Stampa”, 4 luglio 2007: http://www.lastampa.it/2008/07/04/torinosette/appuntamenti/il-ghiottone-errante/il-formaggio-e-misto/zInNbSHFxh4t7vOaESOxiM/pagina.html ; - www.piemonte.campagnamica.it: http://www.piemonte.campagnamica.it/BookingPiemonte/scheda.asp?cod_agrit=AG-PI.875&cookie_test=1 - www.gulliver.it/itinerario/62430/ - www.gulliver.it/itinerario-foto/62430/ -www.gulliver.it/uploaded/2014/large/20141230215635.jpg.

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I versanti del rilievo del Monte Carpegna, che rientrano in parte nel all'interno del Parco Naturale del Sasso Simone e Simoncello, sono interessati da una serie di movimenti gravitativi di grandi dimensioni che mostrano una eccezionale varietà di tipologia. L'elevata franosità di questa area che ricade all'interno della ValMarecchia-Montefeltro è nota sin dal MedioEvo (Persi et al., 1993). Le varie Amministrazioni ebbero infatti problemi nella regolare riscossione dei tributi a causa dei danni provocati dalle frane che isolavano gli ...

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ARCHALP, 2021

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Histoire des Alpes – Storia delle Alpi – Geschichte der Alpen, 2020

In this study, we consider the historical road network in the Late Roman to the Early Mediaeval Period, focusing on the routes between the Lombardy Plains and the Rhaetian province. More specifically, we have analysed the Tabula Peutingeriana, a copy of a Roman map made in 1265 by a monk in Colmar. Our objective is to put forward a new reconstruction of the routes between Milan and Chur. At the same time, we want to suggest a new interpretation of the document as a whole and of the staging posts it features.

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