In the 15th century Milan there were numerous concessions to build soste along the Milan ditch (the internal canals today covered) for the loading and unloading of goods or the sale of materials, but there were also many licenses to private individuals to take advantage of building spaces along the banks of the ancient city wall, and in the citadel and darsena of Porta Ticinese, including the turrets and parts of the wall. If the more ancient concessions mainly concern the construction of soste, then the licenses to expand houses, gardens and to add new buildings multiplied. Not only were the banks privatized, but also the bed of the ditch and the numerous turrets of the ancient circuit were alienated in a definitive way. The applicants validate their requests by denouncing the widespread degradation of these spaces, and the loss of the original defensive function of the walls and towers. Also, they stressed that the private advantage would be redundant on the ornament of the city. A more accurate examination of the ducal licenses illustrates a widespread passage from the public to the private of pieces of urban land, often small and interstitial, but numerous, as a sign of the progressive abandonment of ancient fortifications, walls, turrets, banks and waters. The licenses also shows that the beneficiaries, with few exceptions, were not merchants and craftsmen, but men and sometime women close to the ducal court: officials, ducal magistrates, servants of the court, favorites, soldiers and foremen; in short, people who hung out on the ducal entourage and who claimed their proximity to the dukes to obtain these and other types of favor.
È noto che nella Milano del Quattrocento furono date numerose concessioni di costruire soste lungo il fosso di Milano (i navigli interni oggi interrati) per il carico e scarico merci o la vendita di materiali. Vogliamo qui documentare varie licenze a privati di usufruire di spazi edificabili lungo le rive del fossato e presso l’antica cittadella e la darsena di porta Ticinese, comprese le torrette e vari brani dell’antico muro cittadino, non solo per costruire degli impianti artigianali e commerciali, ma per ampliare abitazioni, orti e giardini e aggiungere manufatti nuovi a edifici già esistenti. Si privatizzavano le rive, parti del terraggio, l’alveo del fosso e le numerose torrette del circuito antico, con donazioni in forma definitiva ed ereditaria. I richiedenti avvaloravano le loro richieste denunciando il degrado diffuso degli spazi e la perdita dell’originaria funzione difensiva degli antichi manufatti e osservando che il vantaggio privato si sarebbe abbinato all’ornamento della città. La rilettura sistematica di una documentazione in parte già nota, mette in luce il passaggio dal pubblico al privato di vari lotti di terreno, in genere piccoli e interstiziali, ma numerosi, segno del progressivo abbandono di antiche fortificazioni, mura, torrette, rive e acque. Un’altra evidenza delle lettere patenti è che solo pochi beneficiari erano mercanti e artigiani, ma piuttosto uomini e donne vicini alla corte ducale: officiali, magistrati ducali, servitori e servitrici della corte, favoriti dei principi, soldati e capisquadra, persone insomma che bazzicavano l’entourage ducale e che facevano valere la loro prossimità ai duchi per ottenere questi e altri tipi di favore.
Permessi di costruire lungo il “fosso di Milano” (1450-1499) / M.N. Covini (QUADERNI DEGLI STUDI DI STORIA MEDIOEVALE E DI DIPLOMATICA). - In: Flos studiorum : Saggi di storia e di diplomatica per Giuliana Albini / [a cura di] A. Gamberini, M.L. Mangini. - Prima edizione. - Milano : Pearson Italia Spa, 2020. - ISBN 9788867742943. - pp. 361-380 [10.17464/9788867742967_16]
Permessi di costruire lungo il “fosso di Milano” (1450-1499)
M.N. Covini
2020
Abstract
In the 15th century Milan there were numerous concessions to build soste along the Milan ditch (the internal canals today covered) for the loading and unloading of goods or the sale of materials, but there were also many licenses to private individuals to take advantage of building spaces along the banks of the ancient city wall, and in the citadel and darsena of Porta Ticinese, including the turrets and parts of the wall. If the more ancient concessions mainly concern the construction of soste, then the licenses to expand houses, gardens and to add new buildings multiplied. Not only were the banks privatized, but also the bed of the ditch and the numerous turrets of the ancient circuit were alienated in a definitive way. The applicants validate their requests by denouncing the widespread degradation of these spaces, and the loss of the original defensive function of the walls and towers. Also, they stressed that the private advantage would be redundant on the ornament of the city. A more accurate examination of the ducal licenses illustrates a widespread passage from the public to the private of pieces of urban land, often small and interstitial, but numerous, as a sign of the progressive abandonment of ancient fortifications, walls, turrets, banks and waters. The licenses also shows that the beneficiaries, with few exceptions, were not merchants and craftsmen, but men and sometime women close to the ducal court: officials, ducal magistrates, servants of the court, favorites, soldiers and foremen; in short, people who hung out on the ducal entourage and who claimed their proximity to the dukes to obtain these and other types of favor.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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