Papers by Maria augusta Bertini
Flouwered in the first decades of the fifteenth century, the cartographic-literary genre of islan... more Flouwered in the first decades of the fifteenth century, the cartographic-literary genre of islands books constitutes a suggestive and important chapter in the history of geographical representations, despite having aroused limited interest among cartography scholars. Consisting of an organic set of representations of the various islands of the world, the "isolari" associate nautical and cartographic elements with descriptions in prose or verse on the physical, historical, political, economic but also mythological conditions of certain islands realities initially of the Mediterranean only and, a second time, of the other seas and oceans of the planet. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are the period of greatest diffusion of the isolaristics genre, with the publication of specialized works that can be considered as real thematic atlases. The treatise on the art of war known as "Diporti Notturni" fits into this vein, written by the military engineer from Ancona Francesco Ferretti in the last decades of the sixteenth century, part of which has the specific connotations of an "isolario". The investigation aims to shed light on the figure of the engineer Ferretti, on his literary production, on the peculiarities of islands of the Mediterranean world, and especially the Aegean, which has always emanated a singular charm, assuming symbolic roles at all times, also combining the myth and reality.
Pisa University Press eBooks, 2023
Il contributo è frutto della collaborazione e della progettualità comune tra le due autrici. Tutt... more Il contributo è frutto della collaborazione e della progettualità comune tra le due autrici. Tuttavia i paragrafi 2 e 4 sono da attribuire a Maria Augusta Bertini, i paragrafi 1 e 3 a Carla Catolfi. * Presentato dal Dipartimento di Studi per la Storia e per il Patrimonio Culturale.
The research examines the history and different roles that the small fortification called "B... more The research examines the history and different roles that the small fortification called "Bastia" has played through the centuries. It is located at the mouth of the Cesano on the north coast of the Marche. It was built around the turn of the 14th century by the Malatesta family of Rimini, to which the Pope had attributed the lordship of Mondolfo. The fortified building was intended to defend the territory subject to the castle. This continued when it and the surrounding lands became property of the St. Marks's Commandery of the Knights Malta's Order, contributing also to face the Ottoman assaults or raids by corsairs and pirates coming from the Eastern Adriatic regions. We used bibliographic, cartographic and archival documents along with some surviving testimony to reconstruct the evolution of this unique structure within the political, social and economical contexts of the past. The progressive abandonment, due to changing historical conditions, has led to the ...
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Papers by Maria augusta Bertini