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THE SCALIGER CASTLE OF SIRMIONE (ENGLISH)
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isbn/issn:
978887385987 9
Autore/i:
Stefano L’Occaso
cm 15x24, 104 pp., 99 ill.
© maggio 2018
CONTENTS
Introduction
VISITOR’S GUIDE. Entrance - The Central Ward (Bailey) - The Southern Ravelins - The Second Ward - The Chemins de Ronde - The Keep - The Dock Ward (a “Palisade”?) - The Dock
HISTORY. Sirmione until the era of the Communes - The Scaligers (1259-1387) - The Della Scala family and the organisation of the local territory - Scaliger Sirmione and its fortifications - The Visconti period (1387-1404) - Venetian Rule after 1405 - A brief Gonzaga period (1509-1515) - Venetian Rule from the Sixteenth Century to 1797 - The Nineteenth Century: the French conquest, Austrian domination, and annexation to the Kingdom of Italy (1797-1861) - The Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
THE CASTLE: FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE PRESENT TIME. Castle or fortress? - The city gate - Stages of construction. The critical debate - Dating the castle - Morphology of the castle and construction techniques - Medieval ports and docks. The exceptional case of Sirmione’s architecture - The castle’s measurements - Restoration after the First World War
FURTHER KNOWLEDGE. The Cathars - War in the Fourteenth Century - Military Engineers in the Scaliger era - Guelphs and Ghibellines - Emblems - Plasterwork - Lapidarium - The Technical Department of Underwater Archaeology (Servizio Tecnico per l’Archeologia Subacquea - S.T.A.S.) and the medieval dugout boats - The castle’s iconography
Bibliography
THE SCALIGER CASTLE OF SIRMIONE (ENGLISH)
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