Legislation of Cultural Heritage
Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher:
MARCO GAETANO PULVIRENTI
Expected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to provide a complete reconstruction of the legislation
on cultural heritage, with specific reference to the activity and organization
of public and private institutions with regard to the management of cultural
heritage, artistic heritage and the landscape. In particular, the course will
analyze the various legal instruments available in order to protect and enhance
the cultural heritage, including through the use of new technologies.
Course Structure
The course will be carried out according to teaching
methods suitable to allow the acquisition of all the basic notions indicated in
the training objectives. During the lessons, cases and materials previously
provided to students will also be discussed.
Required Prerequisites
Some of the concepts provided during the course may require or imply preliminary knowledge of basic administrative law, which can be easily acquired by reading a recent textbook on the subject.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory
Detailed Course Content
Cultural heritage - Protection, management, enhancement and circulation
of cultural heritage - Public bodies of cultural heritage - The supranational
regulation of cultural heritage - Legal protection of the landscape.
Textbook Information
One of the following:
M.G. Pulvirenti, Patrimonio culturale e
ordinamento pluralista, Torino, 2022, p. 244
A. Crosetti, D. Vaiano, Beni culturali e
paesaggistici, Torino, 2014, p. 342
S. Amorosino, Diritto dei beni culturali e del
paesaggio, Padova, 2024, p. 368
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.Course Planning
| | Subjects | Text References |
|---|
| 1 | Cultural heritage | Crosetti-Vaiano (Part I, chap. 1); Amorosino (Part I, chap. 1, 2) Pulvirenti (chap. 1) |
| 2 | Protection, management, enhancement and circulation of cultural heritage | Crosetti-Vaiano (Part I, chap. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8); Amorosino (Part I, chap. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) Pulvirenti (chap. 2, 3) |
| 3 | Public bodies of cultural heritage | Crosetti-Vaiano (Part I, chap. 7) Amorosino (Part I, chap. 6) Pulvirenti (chap. 1) |
| 4 | The supranational regulation of cultural heritage | Crosetti-Vaiano (Part I, chap. 1) Amorosino (Part I, chap. 2) Pulvirenti (chap. 1) |
| 5 | Legal protection of the landscape | Crosetti-Vaiano (Part II) Amorosino (Part II) Pulvirenti (chap. 1) |
Learning Assessment
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Indirect protection; expropriation of cultural assets; pre-emption right over cultural assets; criminal sanctions; landscape; management of cultural assets; valorization of cultural assets.
