English to Italian Art/Literary History

Si parla delle ziggurat dell'antica Mesopotamia:

"We may think that, since our civic buildings - unlike ziggurats - have no pretension to mediate heaven and earth, we are superior to earlier civilizations in being able to separate the physical world from the infinite cosmos.

However, we must think again, because ***the aesthetic claim*** of the ziggurat was perhaps more powerful than any architecture we currently envision than any architecture we currently envision.

In other words, the combination of secular and spiritual vision embodied in a ziggurat is more complex than the inspiartion behind a church or cathedral".

Come lo interpretereste? Grazie mille sin d'ora,
S.