I Dossi, Carlo 1849-1910 creator text utu 2015 monographic it 1 online resource : multiple file formats "I mattoidi al primo concorso pel monumento in Roma a Vittorio Emanuele" by Carlo Dossi is an ironic critical essay published in 1884. When Italy held an open competition to design a monument for King Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome, 239 participants submitted proposals. Dossi witnessed the process and created a scathing yet humorous commentary on the bizarre, impractical, and absurd designs submitted by amateur architects. His "gallery of horrors" ridicules projects featuring unstable columns, misguided pyramids, and monuments doubling as bridges or public baths, while praising rare serious submissions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_mattoidi Release date is 2015-04-11 Produced by Carlo Traverso, Claudio Paganelli, Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Original publication data not identified Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 1820-1878 -- Monuments -- Italy -- Rome Monumento nazionale Vittorio Emmanuele II (Rome, Italy) -- 1910-1920 Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc. NA Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48682 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48682 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134123.0 48682