Fortezza medicea di Volterra: progetto della ‘messa in sicurezza’(restauro e recupero) del camminamento di ronda e degli elementiarchitettonici a sporgere -‘beccatelli’- del lato nord della cortinaperimetrale (1472/1474)

• Domenico Taddei ^[1] ; Caterina Calvani ^[1] ; Antonio Taddei ^[2] ; Andrea Martini ^[3]
  1. [1] University of Pisa

     University of Pisa

     Pisa, Italia

     
  2. [2] Freelance Engineer, Florence, Italy
  3. [3] Italian Institute of Castles - Tuscany Section, Italy

  Mostrar afiliaciones +
• 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. 981-988
• Idioma: italiano
• Enlaces
  • Texto completo
• Resumen

  • The restoration and consolidation of the protruding apparatus of the Medici fortress of Volterra (1472- 1474) aims to preserve this fortified architecture. In 2016, after the restoration of the keep of the “new fortress”, it was reopened to the public 542 years after its construction, creating the possibility of using it without intervening in the prison function of the complex. The north curtain consists of a very extensive front, from the “citadella” to the main door, attributed to Francesco di Giorgio known as il Francione (1425- 1495) Florentine “architect” who also built the structures of Colle val d’Elsa, Pietrasanta, San Gimignano , Sarzana, Sarzanello, to the façade adjacent to it, attributed to M. Mazzei in the mid-19th century. The restoration of the curtain with 233 corbels on brick arches with shelves in “panchino di Volterra” and the control of rainwater on the patrol walkway gives the opportunity to enhance the knowledge and study of a construction typology in the context of fortified architecture. Renaissance of the Italian school called “transizione” with the use of the first artillery. This extraordinary complex is the result of the expansionist policy of Lorenzo “il magnifico” following the Alum War, for hegemony over the city of Volterra and to strengthen the control of the borders towards the Republic of Siena. It was born as a military garrison with a captain, a bomber, nine soldiers. At the time of Lorenzo only a part was used as a prison, it will be definitively transformed into a detention house during the Lorraine Grand Duchy in the mid-1800s.