The students present the work in English:

Our project

Our project was born out for joining teaching programs with our passions, for making school more interesting. So we decided to make a hypertext, about the medieval city of Anagni, in which we could face History in a different way. In fact for the first time, we could really see all the things that we read on the text-books in reality, or better, in the monuments and in the buildings of Anagni, an ancient town of not far from ours and not far from Rome. We divided the work in three stages:

·         The first stage started three years ago when we decided the theme of the hypertext and we chose the city of Anagni as the object of our studies. At first we made a conceptual map of the hypertext in which we made a scheme of it and then we started to search for information from books, documents, Web Sites, maps of the territory, and took photos and videos.

·         In the second stage we made the graphic analysis of all the monuments and places of the city and then we started to write the texts.

·         In the last stage, so during this year, we have translated all the texts in English

Augusto

Home page

This page is the homepage of our own hypertext, and it summarises the most important topics that we have elaborated, these topics are: the history of Roman and Medieval Ages (STORIA), because Anagni was very important in these periods; the settings (INSEDIAMENTI) during these periods; the division of the Medieval Anagni's districts (CONTRADE); the streets (STRADE) that cross over Anagni; the monuments (MONUMENTI) that the people of Anagni built.

If we click on one of these five hot-words, we can begin a path but, unlike a book, we can "jump" from a topic to another by clicking on the links that are in the hypertext.

One of these links opens the information page (i), where there are the prototypes of all the buttons that are in the work. At the bottom of every page of the hypertext we can find other two buttons (in addition to "MENU"): "MAP" (MAPPA) and "GLOSSARY" (GLOSSARIO). The former leads to the page of the map of the hypertext (this map is simpler than the real conceptual map that is at the base of our hypertext) that summarises, in linear and sequential order, the principal nodes that are in the hypertext. The latter opens a window that contains a list of some technical words related to architecture that require an explanation.

Another particularity of the hypertext is that every text that is in this work (except for the definitions of the glossary) has the English translation. We can read it if we click on the button with the British flag.

Antonio G.

History

One of the possible paths in our hypertext is the historical path. You can make it just clicking on the link “Storia”, that is in the hypertext home page. Now you can see a page in which there are, on the left top corner, the most important men of the medieval history of Anagni,  while, on the right lower corner, there are the four most important historical themes of the Middle Ages we dealt with in our project. On the right side of the page, there is a text in which you can find some general information about the history of the period. If you want to visit one of the pages about the characters( Frederick I or Boniface VIII for example) you just have to click on the respective link; so you’ll see the page in which, as in all the other historical pages, there are some pictures, a text with many information, and naturally a button (the Union Jack) clicking on which, you can have an English translation of the text. In many texts there are some hot- words clicking on which, you can visit the respective pages or open a pop-up window (and naturally its English translation) for further information. In some of these pages (Boniface VIII or Frederick II, for example) there’s a vocal comment, whose English translation you can see while listening. Instead, if you want to visit one of the pages about the four historical themes, you can click on one of them and then you can see a page that, like all the other historical pages, has a very simple structure with some pictures and a text.    

Augusto

Monuments

The Monument’s page, contains the principal buildings of Medieval Anagni. We have classified them in: squares, palaces, churches, gates.

The page of “Palaces” is characterised by a scrolling test, a commentary, a map where are located the different palaces in Anagni and these have their own links. In this page we have two important links: typology and monuments. In the page of typology we have enclosed the three important building’s typologies:

Casa ad Atrio Porticato (Portico lobby house)

Casa a Torre (Tower House)

Casa Rurale (Rural House)

We haven’t found the technical term  for “Casa ad Atrio Porticato” in the dictionary, so we have created a possible translation.

Every page is characterised by two links: openings and walls typology.

As to the openings we have individualised the most important typologies: doors and mullioned windows. As to the walls we have seen in depth the different types of walls that surround the city and we have found the buildings that were made using these building typologies.

My task was to analyse the palaces, in particular Gregory IX’ s palace.

In the page of Gregory IX we find a scrolling text that describes the story of this palace, important is the presence of two links: the analysis of the palace and of the district (“Contrada”) where the palace is situated. This palace is divided in three levels and these have been analysed through maps, sections and prospects.

Most important in this palace, is the second floor where there are two rooms: the Slap’s and Geese hall.

It’s thought that Geese room was dedicated to Frederick II by Gregory IX; the characteristic is a big fresco were these geese are represented in lozenges of different colours, the particularity is in that every goose has a different position.

Valentina

Via Maggiore (Maggiore Street)

The most important characteristic of a hypertext is that we can decide different paths while we are reading. In fact if we click on the link “via Maggiore” , we can watch the page that describes this street. The setting of this page is like any another page that analyses the streets of Anagni. In this page we can see the street in relation to the districts with the relative links, which can make us see the page of the district that we select. Here is the street in relation to the morphology of the territory, the street in relation to the other streets, that, by clicking on they relative links, we can watch. In the bottom of the page there is the street in relation to the monuments. We can better see this monuments if we chick on the link “Itinerario Turistico”. In fact in this new page there are the links for visiting the monuments that we can meet along the street. In the centre of the page we see the drawing, in blue colour, of the street, and, in red colour, the different monuments of the street with the relative photos. If we go back to the page of  “via Maggiore” in the central part of the page there is a text, where the characteristics of this street are described. This street is the most important of Anagni, already in the Roman period because it crosses longitudinally the city from south with Cerere gate, to north, with S. Maria gate.

That is all, for now!!  

Angelo

Districts, churches, squares

My work in the hypertext about Anagni is concerned with three principal parts :

1)       districts

2)       churches

3)       squares.

The districts are 9 and are represented in a general map of Anagni containing links to each of them.

The page of every district is organised in the same way, in fact there’s a map of the district and another page where all monuments are located. In every page there’s also a scrolling text, which talks about the history of the district.

The Churches that we have analysed are principally three, because we haven’t found many information about the other  churches of Anagni. The most important church is the Cathedral. We have studied the upper part, but also the lower part, the “CRIPTA”, that is divided in many vaults. For every vault there’s a page which describes the frescos and their painter. There’s a page with a picture of the central square of Anagni, and there are also the links to every  square in Anagni.

Every linked page is structured in the same way, in fact, there’s a picture of the square and a text. There’s also a map where the squares of Anagni are located.