UN’ARCHITETTURA «TRADIZIONALE» PER RINNOVARE I FASTI DELLA “SCUOLA MEDICA SALERNITANA”. La progettazione del Regio Liceo “Torquato Tasso”, «uno dei più antichi e importanti Istituti dell’Italia meridionale», nella Salerno dei primi del Novecento

Abstract

Following the approval of the Donzelli-Cavaccini plan and belonging to a period of relevant urban transformations, the Regio Liceo "Torquato Tasso" represents one of the main Institutes of Southern Italy, depositary of a tradition of education, the Medical School of Salerno, as well as one of the works that marks the passage and inclusion of the Modern Movement in Salerno. Thanks to unpublished archival documentation, the events that characterized its design have been clarified - from the structural choices to the compositional and ornamental ones – allowing, thus, a more general reflection on how the city of Campania faced the insistent instances of innovation that crossed the Nation in those years. The gradual and continuous process of renewal of Salerno involved multiple aspects, promoting new school buildings, including the Liceo Torquato Tasso, paradigm of the attempt to revive the Salerno School by extending its boundaries with respect to the medical discipline.