Notes from the Underworld, a counterhistory of architecture
Text by Stefano Corbo In 1638, seven years after Mount Vesuvius erupted, the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher traveled to Naples and climbed the volcano that had just caused the death of more than 4,000 people. After descending into the crater to measure the temperature, Kircher reported: I thought I beheld the habitation of Hell, wherein […]