La ' città ideale' di Albrecht Dürer. Fonti e fortuna fra XVI e XVII secolo

In this article the author proposes an overall reconsideration of the Albrecht Dürer’s plan for a quadrate town published in his Treatise on Fortification (Nuremberg 1527), paying constant attention to the surviving sources. In particular, the author demonstrates that it is likely that Dürer drew formal inspiration for his quadrate town plan, and for the accurate external defensive system from earlier Italian architectural models – drawings by Leonardo and some parts of the Libro dell’arte della guerra by Machiavelli. For this reasons, it’s dismissed any dependence of Dürer’s quadrate town plan from utopian or different models, such as Thomas More’s Amauroto or the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. Furthermore, in this article the author investigates also the significative reception of Dürer’s treatise in Italy, well-known thanks to the Latin version (Paris 1535).