Resumen de I Tosetti di Castagnola (Lugano): ruoli e gerarchie professionali neicantieri delle difese sabaude nel corso del Seicento
Studying a rich body of documents from archives led to shed light on the role of the Tosetti, a family of engineers and builders from Castagnola (Lugano), in Piedmont and the County of Nizza. Interesting details, in part unpublished, emerged about dynamics related to the organization and the reshaping of the defence system of the Savoy dukedom in XVII century. Professional relationships held by Tosetti helped to dig deeper in the movements of engineers and technicians on the Savoy territory, underlying the importance of the interaction between these figures in the decisions related to the design of the defence system. The role of the duke and of the cadet branches in the definition of the defence system and in the requirements in term of preparation and competences for the builders that had to realize it emerged from the study, leading to important questions on their background education. The Tosetti family represented then a sort of fil rouge that helped to reconstruct the Savoy’s plans about the definition of the image of State and of its defence system, and dig deeper into it, along the entire Seventeenth century.
