Il duomo di Cagliari nel Medioevo visto dagli occhi di un erudito dell’Ottocento

When Giovanni Spano wrote the Guida del duomo di Cagliari in 1856, he was motivated by the intention of providing an itinerary for the convenience of «foreigners» who visit the city and wish to have information on the events and works of art of its cathedral. Following the itinerary designed by Spano, the essay will follow the steps of the erudite trying to put himself in the guise of the scholar in the examination of the cathedral itself and its sacred furnishings dating back to the medieval era. His analysis methodology is careful and punctual, with an eye aimed primarily at verifying history through the epigraphic, artistic and archaeological documents available at the time. The Scholar fits fully into the cultural climate of the time, certainly exceeding the dimension of the nineteenth-century erudite in the direction of the openings that will give him the stature of initiator of modern archaeological and historical-artistic science in Sardinia.