Before and after Ribera.: Coastal defenses of Northern Capitanata in the early modern age
- Autores: Michele Coppola
- Localización: Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean: XV to XVIII Centuries: Vol. VI / coord. por Ángel B. González Avilés, 2017, ISBN 978-84-16724-76-5, pág. 283
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In the studies of the coastal defenses of the Kingdom of Naples, there is a widespread tendency to focus attention on the viceroy phase, extending its unitary nature, which in some cases does not correspond to what really happened. Some of the results of the survey on the "defensive minorities" of the north coast of the Capitanata, from the mouth of Fortore to Peschici, are presented in this paper. In particular we have investigated two towers of the Viceroys period, which don�t look to follow the standard architectural model provided by the decree of Pedro Afàn de Ribera: the Tower on the Fortore (Lesina, Italy) and the Tower of San Menaio (Vico del Gargano, Italy). The investigation covered the digital documentation of these two buildings and a preliminary analysis from a typological, stratigraphic and conservation point of view. Some interesting aspects emerged about material history and the transformations of the structures over time, but also significant relationships with buildings of the same period.
