Scamardì, Giuseppina
«Alicante, terra e fortezza». La città e le sue fortificazioni in un disegno del 1611
Scamardì, Giuseppina. "«Alicante, terra e fortezza». La città e le sue fortificazioni in un disegno del 1611". In: Echarri Iribarren, Víctor (Ed.). Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. XV to XVIII Centuries: Vol. V: Proceedings of the International Conference on Modern Age Fortifications of the Mediterranean Coast, FORTMED 2017. Alacant: Publicacions Universitat d’Alacant, 2017. ISBN 978-84-16724-75-8, pp. 127-134
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/70419
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ISBN: 978-84-16724-75-8
Abstract: 
This essay will introduce an unpublished urban perspective of Alicante. This drawing is part of a manuscript kept in the Library Riccardiana of Florence; it is a travel diary written in the first fifteen years of the XVIIth century by a sailor on board the galley of the Tuscan Order of St. Stephen. The perspective was sketched in 1611 and is accompanied by a description of the locations, with particular attention to the fortifications. Alicante is portrayed from the sea and from the northeast: the author is on a galley, a short distance from the coast and he uses a low point of view on the horizon. As a result, it provides a reliable picture of an urban and territorial system, comparable to the best-known iconography and it is therefore an interesting testimony of the sites and fortifications before the French bombardment of 1691.
Keywords:Alicante, Military architecture, Urban iconography, 17th century
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