Muzio Oddi (1569-1639) is a figure that has not yet been fully investigated, especially as far as the disciplines of architecture and military engineering are concerned. During his military campaigns in the service of Philip II of Spain, in the war against Henry IV of France, the young Urbino acquired a reputation as a skilful designer of military architecture, as witnessed by the activity in this field developed in the following decades, between Northern Italy and Lucca, the city to which he moved in 1625 to take over the direction of the great construction site of the new fortified city walls. From the large corpus of drawings, mostly unpublished, found in the royal collection of Windsor (United Kingdom), in some Italian libraries (Florence, Pesaro, Urbino) and in the manuscripts of the University of St Andrews (Scotland), some case studies are taken and compared with the aim of finally bringing to light the skills and achievements of this important personality.
Muzio Oddi (1569-1639) è una figura non ancora del tutto indagata, soprattutto per ciò che attiene gli ambiti disciplinari dell’architettura e dell’ingegneria militare. Nel corso delle campagne militari al servizio di Filippo II di Spagna, nella guerra contro Enrico IV di Francia, il giovane urbinate acquista la fama di valente progettista di architetture militari, testimoniata dall’attività in questo campo sviluppata nei decenni successivi, tra l’Italia del Nord e Lucca, città nella quale si trasferisce a partire dal 1625 per assumere la direzione del grande cantiere della nuova cinta fortificata. Dal nutrito corpus di disegni, perlopiù inediti, rintracciati nella collezione reale di Windsor (Regno Unito), presso alcune biblioteche italiane (Firenze, Pesaro, Urbino) e nei manoscritti dell’University of St Andrews (Scozia), sono prelevati e messi a confronto alcuni casi studio con l’obiettivo di portare finalmente alla luce le competenze e i risultati raggiunti da questa importante personalità.
Muzio Oddi architetto di fortificazioni nell'Italia del Seicento
Bertoncini Sabatini paolo
2023-01-01
Abstract
Muzio Oddi (1569-1639) is a figure that has not yet been fully investigated, especially as far as the disciplines of architecture and military engineering are concerned. During his military campaigns in the service of Philip II of Spain, in the war against Henry IV of France, the young Urbino acquired a reputation as a skilful designer of military architecture, as witnessed by the activity in this field developed in the following decades, between Northern Italy and Lucca, the city to which he moved in 1625 to take over the direction of the great construction site of the new fortified city walls. From the large corpus of drawings, mostly unpublished, found in the royal collection of Windsor (United Kingdom), in some Italian libraries (Florence, Pesaro, Urbino) and in the manuscripts of the University of St Andrews (Scotland), some case studies are taken and compared with the aim of finally bringing to light the skills and achievements of this important personality.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
