Search results for "Giovanni Vincenzo Casali"
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Religiosi e “geometrie dell’impero”. Teorie e pratiche fortificatorie tra Mediterraneo e Atlantico
2018
Between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth, the changes in the military technology - mainly related to the spread of firearms - implied a re-elaboration of the fortification construction theories and, consequently, a practical experimentation aimed at the identification of architectural models capable to make the border areas safe and impregnable. Far from involving only a small circle of "men of arms", the debate about the “new art of the war” involved men whose formation can not be traced back to a specific type. Clearly emerges a fact: the involvement of ecclesiastics also as "technicians" for the design of defensive structures, was not a marginal phenome…
Biografie politiche e carriere transnazionali. Mobilità e stanzialità nella Monarchia Spagnola nella prospettiva della storiografia italiana
2023
In recent decades Italian historiography has been enriched by new research that has allowed us to understand the functioning of the Spanish Monarchy in the Modern Age.In particular, studies carried out on political actors who built their careers in the Mediterranean and Atlantic areas have highlighted how we can reconstruct a connected history that, starting from the individual experiences, gives due attention to both the circulation of knowledge and the relations at the local level.