The Divine Comedy is full of terms related to castles, towers, fortresses, and city walls. This essay analyzes this specific lexical area, accompanying us on an illustrated journey where architecture is intertwined with military technique, ballistics, and engineering.
It was a woman, Lucrezia, who salvaged the Medici finances, providing Lorenzo il Magnifico with the funds to turn Florence into the ‘ideal city’. Behind the genius of Cosimo I was another mother, Maria, who devoted her life to the making of the ‘prince’ and then withdrew into the shadows.
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