Antiquity Studies

La città e i suoi falsi

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Abstract

This paper deals with an instructive example of documentary falsification concerning cities and their history in the Marche. Epigraphic forgeries, which normally appear on paper, are objects of invention. They propose the celebration of a city for its ancient origin, the historical events around it, the descent from illustrious Roman figures, and celebrate local families, putting forward accounts of the origin of toponyms and institutions.


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Submitted: July 3, 2019 | Accepted: Sept. 10, 2019 | Published Dec. 16, 2019 | Language: it

Keywords Marche • Cities • Fake • Documentary forgeries • Antiquarians

Copyright © 2019 Silvia Maria Marengo. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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