L'impronta dei laici sulla città devozionale: interventi pubblici e privati in edilizia a Milano tra inizio della dominazione spagnola e peste manzoniana

L'impronta dei laici sulla città devozionale: gli interventi pubblici e privati in edilizia a Milano tra inizio della dominazione spagnola e peste manzoniana - The laical mark on the devotional city: public and private intervention in Milan between the beginning of Spanish domination and Manzoni’s plague The article is aimed to stress the importance of laical action in the building and infrastructural sectors in the period between the second half of 16th century and the pla- gue of 1630. One of the major interventions in this sector was the reconstruction of the city wall, about which the article accounts of a number of important data. This, with other important works carried out in the same period, induces to reconsider the role played by laics, intended as both public institutions and private, in reshaping the urban structure of Milan. The article also gives back to building sector a role of first importance in sustaining the growing phase in Milanese economy, towards a traditional approach that tends to consider this period less dynamic if compared with both precedent and subsequent ones and almost entirely characterised by the initiative of ecclesiastics.

Luca Mocarelli, L'impronta dei laici sulla città devozionale: interventi pubblici e privati in edilizia a Milano tra inizio della dominazione spagnola e peste manzoniana in "STORIA URBANA " 123/2009, pp 149-170, DOI: 10.3280/SU2009-123007