Law, administration and management of Cultural Heritage

In line with the objectives of the CdS, the teaching aims to develop, in students, an acute vision multidisciplinary view of the field of cultural heritage, through the analysis of new perspectives of research and valorization of antiquity through the adoption of interpretative models grounded in Roman law. In the course of the lectures, students will be able to verify how the connection between the notions of Roman law and the great ancient archaeological heritage constitutes a source of interesting new data on past civilizations and their history, and enables the elaboration of new models of valorization capable of impacting, both culturally and economically, contemporary society. The study of Roman law will prove fundamental in order to know the function, and the real social value, of ancient res and loca, the study of which is often limited to historical or aesthetic notions; with such critical awareness, students will acquire the necessary skills to develop projects with a multidisciplinary declination, which take into account the ever-increasing and varied demand for information posed by the general public for archaeological sites. During the course of the lectures, students will also be able to enter into the merits of projects already underway, which have as their lowest common denominator precisely the combination of Roman law and cultural heritage: Sapienza University of Rome is in fact engaged, together with various cultural entities such as the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum, in the realization of numerous projects in which Roman Law contributes to enriching the heritage of knowledge disseminated to the general public, complementing with a judicious component the cultural offer of archaeological, artistic, architectural and literary matrix. Within the framework of the above initiatives, there is also the first National Edition achieved by Sapienza, admitted for funding by the MIC in 2023, which will edit translation and commentary of the texts of the Gromatici Veteres; through the analytical study of the heritage of information betrayed by the land surveyors, it will be possible to realize new models of landscape enhancement, particularly of the agrarian one.