Building with Water:

Author:

Kassler-Taub Elizabeth1

Affiliation:

1. Dartmouth College

Abstract

From the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, military engineers in the Mediterranean devised a new strategy for defending a city built on a peninsular site: a navigable canal was excavated through the neck of the landmass, severing the city from the coast and isolating it within the sea. In Building with Water: The Rise of the Island-City in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub traces the development and dissemination of this overlooked urban type. She details how the “island-city” first emerged in the Adriatic and Ionian territories of the Venetian stato da mar and later swept across Spanish and Portuguese outposts in the western Mediterranean basin, where it was absorbed into a shared Iberian vernacular. By reconstructing the circulation of the island-city through this sprawling network of colonial frontiers, Kassler-Taub argues, we can chart an alternative path of architectural influence in the region, one that shifts our attention beyond the Italian and Spanish mainlands.

Publisher

University of California Press

Subject

History,Visual Arts and Performing Arts,Architecture

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1. I am grateful to Alina Payne, Gülru Necipoğlu, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Maurizio Vesco, and Lauren Jacobi for their insights during the early phases of my research for this article. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own.

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5. Dufour attributes the fortification of Trapani to Ferramolino. Liliane Dufour, “El reino de Sicilia: Las fortificaciones en tiempos de Carlos V,” in Las fortificaciones de Carlos V, ed. Carlos José Hernando Sánchez (Madrid: Ediciones del Umbral, 2000), 501. I defer to Vesco, who dates the project to the period of Tomasello's involvement. Maurizio Vesco, “Pietro Antonio Tomasello de Padua: Un ingeniero militar véneto en la Sicilia de Carlos V,” Espacio, tiempo e forma 7, nos. 22–23 (2009–10), 59, 65. The canal, filled in during the nineteenth century, corresponds to the present-day Via XXX Gennaio. See Sicilia: Guide verdi d'Italia (Milan: Touring Club Italiano, 2010), 102.

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