Gli edifici residenziali non aulici nella Villa Adriana di Tivoli : caserma dei Vigili, Hospitalia, Triclinio Imperiale, novità e indirizzi di analisi

During a visit to Hadrian’s Tiburtine Imperial Villa, we come across signs aimed at providing information about the nearest complex: in most cases, users begin reading starting from the nominal defnition attributed to that building, that does not correspond to the original function most of the time, but derives from historically –or not– consolidated attributions. For this reason, Pinto and McDonald, in their excellent volume –certainly more addressed to an educated public than to that of ordinary visitors– attempted a correction, only managing to confuse the reading by those who know well the individual complexes and their functions, that therefore could not distinguish them in the indications adopted by American scholars. At the moment, the sum of investigations proposed by the literature has brought to light various evidence, including the clear separation between the buildings of an imperial character and those “not aulic”, immediately identifable by the fnishing materials, as well as the existence of both categories in buildings with a strong residential function. Among the latter and, in particular, among the non-aulic ones, the object of the communication presented here is inserted, discussed by listing the complexes which can be classifed in this category, due to their characteristics and the latest discoveries with reference to researches carried out with regard to the socalled Caserma dei Vigili, Hospitalia, Triclinio Imperiale.