Naming of the wide street in front of Domenico Morelli Street after Roberto Pane, architect and architectural historian

The largo in front of Via Domenico Morelli will be named after Roberto Pane, an architect and architectural historian who was among the founding fathers of the School of Architecture, later Faculty, of the University of Naples Federico II.

A dedication ceremony will be held on Friday, November 21, 2025, at 10 a.m. in the presence of Naples Mayor Gaetano Manfredi. Speakers will also include Marella Santangelo, director of the Department of Architecture (DiARC); Lorenzo Capobianco, president of the Order of Architects of the Province of Naples; Alessandro Castagnaro, deputy director of DiARC and president of ANIAI Campania; Giulio Pane, former professor of the History of Architecture and son of Roberto Pane; and Laura Lieto, deputy mayor of Naples.

Roberto Pane (1897-1987), taught at the Federico II with continuity from 1930 to 1972, first as a freelance lecturer and from 1942 as full professor of Stylistic and Constructive Characters of Monuments, also covering for twenty years the teaching of Restoration of Monuments and for a few years those of Architectural Literature, which he himself introduced into the Faculty's curriculum.
A former president of the Order of Architects of Naples (1944-52), then director of the Institute of Stylistic and Constructive Characters of Monuments, Roberto Pane founded in 1969 the School of Further Education, then of Specialization, in Restoration of Monuments at the University of Naples Federico II, the second institution of its kind in Italy after the one in Rome. Fully committed to the study and protection of architectural heritage and landscape, not only in Italy, he has received important international recognition, working as a UNESCO expert in Paris (1949), teaching for a semester at the University of California, Berkeley, and later at UNAM in Mexico City, as well as promoting the International Charter for the Restoration of Monuments, better known as the Venice Charter in 1964.