Lo scenario difensivo umbro-marchigiano nel primo Seicento: notedalla relazione dell’ingegnere militare Giulio Buratti a papa UrbanoVIII
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[1] Università di Urbino
Università di Urbino
Urbino, Italia
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- Localización: FORTMED2023. Defensive architecture of the mediterranean : vol. XIII, XIV, XV / Marco Giorgio Bevilacqua (dir. congr.), Denise Ulivieri (aut.), 2023, ISBN 978-84-1396-129-3, págs. 21-28
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
The central government of the Papal State and the administrations of its peripheral communities have paid constant attention to the protection of settlements, inhabitants and economic activities, preparing or reorganizing defensive systems over time aimed at facing expansionist attempts by neighboring powers or attacks by bandits. The repeated requests for verification of the protective conditions advanced by the popes and the many measures aimed at strengthening the urban walls, creating new strategic surveillance points, enhancing the quantity and type of heavy artillery and firearms of all kinds are proof of this. Following the definition of the fundamental rules for the general protection of the State, repeated territorial surveys are recorded, which are accounted for in various writings organized in the form of both essential inventories and articulated critical and propositional reports. Among the many reports dedicated to the subject, the unpublished manuscript drawn up in 1623 by the military engineer Giulio Buratti and included in the Barberiniano Latino code 6333 of the Vatican Library is of particular interest. The report, object of the investigation, is configured as a report of a journey made by order of Pope Urban VIII and aimed at inspecting both the coastal and internal defensive system of the central-northern Marche and part of Umbria, focusing on the most important positions fortified with related armaments, noting the necessary upgrades of the war apparatus without, however, neglecting the geographical description of landscapes, routes and places visited.
