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Ingegneri militari nella Sicilia degli Asburgo: formazione, competenze e carriera di una figura professionale tra Cinque e Seicento
2015
During the Sixteenth century and the first half of the following one, Sicily played a key role in the strategy of defense of the Spanish Empire from the looming Turkish threat, being an island considered as a baluarte against the Turks. Yet despite this absolute centrality in the military policy of the Spanish monarchy, till now historical research has preferred to provide broader spectrum interpretations at the expense of in-depth studies on individual technicians or overall pictures about the figure of the military engineer. We will present a synoptic view attesting the time period of activity covered by each military technician working for the kingdom of Sicily, within a wider study conc…
Michelangelo Blasco versus Ferdinando Fuga: una nuova attribuzione per il ponte sul Milicia in Sicilia
2015
The finding at the National Library of Spain of an eighteenth-century engraving of the bridge over the river Milicia, along the coast to the east of Palermo, is a chance not only to shed light on the complex history of the design and construction of one of the main Sicilian bridges, but also to attribute the real paternity rather than to the famous architect Ferdinando Fuga to the lesser-known military engineer, serving the Austrian Crown, Michelangelo Blasco, whose long and successful career is reconstructed: from Sicily, through Milan, Wien and Lisbon, to the uncharted territory of Brazil.
The Norman myth in the artistic culture of Hapsburgs’ Sicily: identity construction and representation of power
2015
In Sicilia, nell’Ottocento, si assistette in architettura a un revival neonormanno che trovava in quel momento glorioso della storia isolana la legittimazione per rivendicazioni autonomiste mirate alla ricostituzione di un regno di Sicilia finalmente libero dal giogo borbonico e da Napoli. Tuttavia, un fenomeno culturale analogo si era già registrato nel corso del xvi secolo. Nel rinascimento siciliano, infatti, si guardò non soltanto al classicismo e alla Roma dei Cesari, ma anche all’eredità del medioevo normanno, nel tentativo forse di costruire un’identità per un’isola, come la Sicilia asburgica, non libera e melting pot di culture diverse. Il caso del mito normanno presenta, però, in s…