Although small, the village of Sant'Antonio Rocchetta has a long history documented as a part of the territories of these political transformations, from the Middle Ages to the dilution of the Kingdom of Naples. Evolution itself of its place names - from the ancient Rocca Antimo, around which it was developed, the original urban core, in Rocchetta S. Antonio - you can re-read the history of the country at least since at least the eleventh century. From the early years of the sixteenth century this story is closely linked to the presence of the Castle, built by Ladislaus II of Aquino in 1507. It can not say that The Castle Aquinas is an unknown fortification; its particular shape planimetric with a triangular base with three bastions of “almond shape” or, if you will, to “bec d'éperon” (a spur beak) - as the origin of form is due to the French castles of the XI-XII century - has always struck the military architecture scholars, and particularly for its formal similarity with the fortifications of the greatest architect and military writer of the Renaissance in the second half of the fifteenth century, that is the Sienese architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini. The importance of the architect, also commissioned by the major short and noble age - and especially for us by the Aragonese court of Naples - is witnessed by the operating result which had its original and updated works obsidional to new posts to the benchmarks with the technological improvement of firearms and the use of gunpowder, more devastating and feared. A retinue of followers architects and military engineers engaged in the fortification of the Kingdom under the constant threat of the Muslim enemy. Among these, among which we remember especially the florentine Antonio Marchesi from Settignano, must lie the author or at least the implementer of Castello d'Aquino on the model pioneered and popularized by Francesco di Giorgio.
F. Mariano, A. Giuliano, Il Castello d’Aquino a Rocchetta Sant’Antonio tra storia e restauro, Andrea Livi editore, Fermo 2016. ISBN 8879693727 / Mariano, Fabio; Giuliano, ANDREA ANTONIO. - STAMPA. - 1:(2016), pp. 1-98.
F. Mariano, A. Giuliano, Il Castello d’Aquino a Rocchetta Sant’Antonio tra storia e restauro, Andrea Livi editore, Fermo 2016. ISBN 8879693727
fabio mariano;andrea giuliano
2016-01-01
Abstract
Although small, the village of Sant'Antonio Rocchetta has a long history documented as a part of the territories of these political transformations, from the Middle Ages to the dilution of the Kingdom of Naples. Evolution itself of its place names - from the ancient Rocca Antimo, around which it was developed, the original urban core, in Rocchetta S. Antonio - you can re-read the history of the country at least since at least the eleventh century. From the early years of the sixteenth century this story is closely linked to the presence of the Castle, built by Ladislaus II of Aquino in 1507. It can not say that The Castle Aquinas is an unknown fortification; its particular shape planimetric with a triangular base with three bastions of “almond shape” or, if you will, to “bec d'éperon” (a spur beak) - as the origin of form is due to the French castles of the XI-XII century - has always struck the military architecture scholars, and particularly for its formal similarity with the fortifications of the greatest architect and military writer of the Renaissance in the second half of the fifteenth century, that is the Sienese architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini. The importance of the architect, also commissioned by the major short and noble age - and especially for us by the Aragonese court of Naples - is witnessed by the operating result which had its original and updated works obsidional to new posts to the benchmarks with the technological improvement of firearms and the use of gunpowder, more devastating and feared. A retinue of followers architects and military engineers engaged in the fortification of the Kingdom under the constant threat of the Muslim enemy. Among these, among which we remember especially the florentine Antonio Marchesi from Settignano, must lie the author or at least the implementer of Castello d'Aquino on the model pioneered and popularized by Francesco di Giorgio.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
