Measuring and Shaping the Late Medieval City: Mathematical Descriptions of City Walls in Florence and Milan

• Authors: Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

The article presents the use of mathematical tools (both calculation and geometry) in the perception of late medieval urban space. For this purpose, two descriptions of city walls of the late medieval Italian city have been compared. The first describes the city walls of Florence, and originates from Giovanni Villani’s Nuova Cronica; the second pertains to the fortifications of Milan, and originates from the much less known Cronica extravagans by Galvano Fiamma. Both authors used data from measurements and knowledge of the principles of geometry to illustrate the splendour of their respective cities and to help readers visualize them.

Keywords

PL

urban form; city walls; late medieval urban chronicles; description of cities; perception of urban space

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historyczny
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 126
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2019

online

2019-09-19

Contributors

author

Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska

Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/KH.2019.126.SI.1.01