Luogo e identità: comprendere il Genius Loci, Place and identity. Conceiving the Genius Loci

The Genius Loci sinks roots in the classical era, where the Genius was everyday part of everyday life. This paper is an attempt to capture the true sense of the Genius figure analyzing verses from authors who have written about it and reporting some iconographic illustrations. There are a lot of literary sources and different interpretations, and these are often contradictory. Today this locution is used in various contexts, however we can recognize the Genius Loci in some places and cities, and it can remain in our memories. Someone could make a transposition between Genius and place, because just as devastating a place could antagonise the Genius Loci, in the same way when the soil of a territory is overused, depriving it of its resources, and when the relationships between location and morphology are neither understood nor respected, there is a risk that it will rebel, giving rise to natural phenomena of no small consequence