Since the 18th century the “Prati del Popolo Romano” (Meadows of Roman People), devoted to the public use, received the remains of Protestant people, which, according to the papal legislation, could not be entombed in a church, and whose burial nearby the Muro Torto close to prostitutes, suicides and people who denied sacraments, was considered indecorous. Thus the Cemetery of English People or Non-Catholic Cemetery arose from the dialectics between discrimination – the “heretic” had to be confined in a marginal place – and privilege – because of the dignity of buried people. |
there were the regulation of burial rights and works carried out in order to defend the Cemetery, whose tombs had often been violated by fanatical and drunk people.The place looked as a garden that partly maintained the original rural aspect and partly reminded the garden-cemetery used in the Protestant Europe.
( L. D’Alessandro) |