Tomorrow, Saturday 19 November 2022 at 5 pm, the focus “Parole di pietra. Three epigraphic finds in San Marino”.

As “the only surviving city state” and “exceptional testimony of a living cultural tradition that has lasted for seven hundred years”, in 2008 Monte Titano and the historic centers of San Marino and Borgo Maggiore were recognized by UNESCO as an inalienable heritage of the humanity.

Despite the various urban transformations, sometimes significant, the fortifications, the walls, the streets, the public and private buildings, the ground levels still present in the historic center of San Marino retain a significant archaeological potential.

Proof of this are the unexpected finds, in 2015 and 2020, of three epigraphs: the fragmentary funerary epigraph of Giuliano Corbelli, in the cellar of the so-called “Casa della Tedesca”, and the funerary epigraph of Pier Paolo Bonelli and the one with the letters ” R” and “Z” reversed in Palazzo Manzoni Borghesi. Giuliano Corbelli and Pier Paolo Bonelli are prominent figures of the political and cultural elite of 16th-century San Marino, who held numerous positions in San Marino and also outside the San Marino territory.

I concentrate “Words of stone. Three epigraphic finds in San Marino”edited by Paola Bigi and Claudia Malpeli, illustrates the process of recovery, study and enhancement of epigraphs conducted by the Cultural Institutes: State Museums, Archaeological Section and State Library with the collaboration of the State Archives.
The conservative restoration of the epigraphs was supervised by Serena Brioli, while the supports of the epigraphs were designed and built by the Autonomous State Company for public works.
Some sixteenth-century books from Giuliano Corbelli’s book collection of the State Library and a letter from Pier Paolo Bonelli dated 1548 conserved in the State Archive are exhibited in the focus.

The focus will remain open to the public until April 16, 2023.