A Companion to Sardinian History, 500–1500

Sassari 351 (present-day Corso Vittorio Emanuele) with its porticos and shops; the Palazzo di Città situated on the same artery ...

352 Rovina even given the character of civic architecture, which consisted of common one-story homes and many multi-storied lord ...

Sassari 353 exact picture of the city’s food consumption42 in a period of transformation and important historical changes. The e ...

354 Rovina James II, in 1323.43 Several years later, however, discontent with the new rul- ers provoked another revolt in the ci ...

Sassari 355 Corsicans, Pisans, and Genoese, all of whom ultimately enriched the multieth- nic character of Sassari.45 The constr ...

356 Rovina recently identified are the Sassarian polychrome majolica dated to the late six- teenth and early seventeenth centuri ...

Sassari 357 Figure 13.13 One of the corridors inside the barbican of the Aragonese castle. With kind permission of the Archaeolo ...

358 Rovina After a fresh crisis in the early sixteenth century caused by the terrible epidemic of 1528, frequent barbarian raids ...

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360 Milanese Figure 14.1 Aerial view of the historical center of Alghero, outlined by the medieval city walls. ...

Alghero 361 Figure 14.2 Map of Alghero with the location of the archaeological excavations inside the old city. ...

362 Milanese city center was also excavated in the case of the Ospedale Vecchio, located in the ancient Jewish juharia of the Ca ...

Alghero 363 A debate over the attribution of this date started in the 1980s, when some scholars questioned this chronology,5 emp ...

364 Milanese the appearance of the port of Alghero in written sources), assumed the role of landed lords in some areas of northe ...

Alghero 365 caused the city to rise by several meters. Such conditions have been discovered through excavations that succeeded i ...

366 Milanese had recognized the seignior, but the Doria still needed to control what was one of the most important strongholds o ...

Alghero 367 In the sixteenth century, Alghero played a strategic role in Madrid’s con- trol of Sardinia, serving as a shield aga ...

368 Milanese Figure 14.3 Drawing of Alghero’s fortification by Giorgio Paleari (1573). on the traces of the sixteenth-century (o ...

Alghero 369 demolished, but rather transformed into a stronghold thanks to a process of reinforcement in which the soil leaning ...

370 Milanese walls of Alghero were maintained and transformed at the onset of the modern era. A vast project to embank the late ...