The rediscovery of a unique «books of armaments» belonged to King Ferrante allows a thorough examination of the production of guns and the management of arsenals in Renaissance Naples. Through the one hundred and thirty five drawings contained in the codex, this paper analyzes the features of the royal ordnance, focusing on the multiple innovations introduced by foreign gunmakers and promoted by local statesmen. The results of the research will underline the celebratory and the propagandistic use of both the artillery and the «book», according to a visual ideology of military power shared with all of the fifteenth-century Italian governments.
L'immagine della forza. Il 'libro degli armamenti' di Ferrante d'Aragona
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
2019
Abstract
The rediscovery of a unique «books of armaments» belonged to King Ferrante allows a thorough examination of the production of guns and the management of arsenals in Renaissance Naples. Through the one hundred and thirty five drawings contained in the codex, this paper analyzes the features of the royal ordnance, focusing on the multiple innovations introduced by foreign gunmakers and promoted by local statesmen. The results of the research will underline the celebratory and the propagandistic use of both the artillery and the «book», according to a visual ideology of military power shared with all of the fifteenth-century Italian governments.
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