Pietre di Rimini. L’Influenza di John Ruskin sul pensiero di Augusto Campana e i riverberi nella ricostruzione postbellica del Tempio Malatestiano

While Rimini was bombed during the World War II, Augusto Campana decided to write a journal in order to track all the events and damages occurred to the stones composing the main monuments of the city. This gave him the idea for the title of his diary: Pietre di Rimini, an Italian translation of the Adrian Stokes’ Stones of Rimini, in turn recalling the Ruskin’s masterpiece The Stones of Venice. Thanks to the comparative reading of the journal and other works by Campana in relation to the English scholar’s thought, the paper aims at comprehending the Ruskin’s legacy in this specific context underlying contact points and divergences able to influence the aftermath restoration process with a double and contrasting vision.