From the fortifications to the strongholds. The modifications of the defensive culture of the city ancient Régime in relation to the birth of the modern governance of the territory.

Abstract

The plan attached to the text of Ambrogio Leone (1514) is a precious statement about the evolution of the Campania felix between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. On the occasion of the V centenary from the publication of De Nola and of the recent publication in a modern version of De morbo epidemiali nolano by Giovan Battista Cavallari, is proposed an analysis of the two works in relation to the transformations happened in a vital area of the Mediterranean, the so-called Terra di Lavoro. Througg a synoptic comparison with the previous Aragon maps, it is possible to capture the proposing of the system of the hill castles in the plain; the development of the castra on the border of an area constantly threatened by natural disasters; the alterations after the introduction of the gunpowder,with the cultural and the social-economic transformations of the dynamic of the arms industry's preparation; the relations among the climate, the shape of the city and the territory's morphology.