ITALIAN 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Italy In The Middle Ages
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Many poor and diseased people, streets are dirty. Daily life starts early and is full of subsistence activities. Punishment for public consumption is very gruesome. Crenelation are the bumps on top of walls- used to hide behind and shoot arrows at attackers. Tight streets with many buildings, windows are open (no glass yet) palazzo (town square) were the centers of city life: for church, market, government buildings etc . Also houses and elds outside of the city walls. Civic buildings were differentiated from churches by being asymmetrical with large staircases and loggias (large balconies) Uses of towers: bell towers for church, lookout and visibility advantage, even rich households start buildings towers for ghting advantages (rich families had small armies and fought among one another) Cities develop a sense of identity and citizens view themselves as sienans or.
