La città fortificata di Arezzo nei Cabrei del Priorato di Pisa

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In this proposal the aim is to analyse the fortified city of Arezzo from unpublished archival documents.The Johannite Commandery of S. Jacopo, today no longer existing, was part of the urban setting of Arezzoand was located near the Porta Santo Spirito. This ancient fortification survives today. It stands as a veryimportant example of military constructions for its massive polygonal town walls which were builtbetween 1538 and 1560 by Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane on the site of the old Medieval citadel. TheChurch of S. Jacopo was destroyed to make way for new urban plans in the post-war period. Still in theurban area traces of the Order of Malta’s architecture survive. Our explanation attempts to explore theconnection of this commandery with the fortified city. From such perspective it is interesting to analysethe setting up and functioning of the commandery within a fortified-urban framework. In this analysisstudying the drawings produced by the land surveyors from the cabrei is of utmost importance. Theseunpublished documents, part of the ancient archive of the Priory of Pisa, offer in fact an unusualrepresentation of a fortified city, which is now preserved in the Archivio di Stato in Florence.