追忆盖尔夫-吉伯林战争中消失的塔楼

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盖尔夫-吉伯林战争中消失的塔楼

发表者：exurbe，发表于 2025年1月15日 Florence, History, Inventing the Renaissance, Italy 12 Photo of a model of Bologna, with so many earthy pink tall skinny towers sticking up from every block of the terra-cotta-roofed town that it looks like plant seeds starting to come up in spring. Around the edge you can see the city's moat and battlemented walls, looking tiny compared to the towers which rise to six or seven times the height of the three-story buildings around them. 看起来很假，不是吗？这片令人难以置信的中世纪塔林，密度堪比曼哈顿的摩天大楼，是我们对博洛尼亚鼎盛时期（即中世纪盖尔夫-吉伯林战争末期）的最佳重建。如今我们已经看不到很多这样的塔楼了……或者说我们认为看不到，但实际上它们的残余遍布意大利各地。

在佛罗伦萨，经常能看到这样的建筑，一部分是粗糙的石头，在灰泥邻居中显得格外突出。 A photo of a street in Florence. Many tourists walk along and the buildings are all shops and eateries. In the center, conspicuous between buildings of yellow or beige stucco, is one building made of crude-looking yellowish stone, very rough and undecorated, with few windows and all small compared to its neighbors. A couple doors down, a second conspicuous stone section like this sticks up, also strangely blank and rough amid its yellow neighbors. Both stop about half a story above the roofs of the three-story buildings on either side of them. 这些实际上是中世纪石塔的底部残余。圣吉米尼亚诺镇（如下）以拥有几座保存完好的塔楼而闻名。富裕的家庭建造这些塔楼作为城市内的小型堡垒，他们可以在那里防御暴动、敌对家族（想想 Montague 和 Capulet 家族）和入侵： A classic image of the skyline of the town of San Gimigniano, with many smaller houses three or four stories tall with the characteristic Italian yellow stucco walls and terra cotta tiled roofs, but with eleven stone towers sticking up far above them, towering twelve stories or more. The towers are very plain and blank, just squares of stone without decoration and with few windows, clearly utilitarian more than aesthetic. 这些全石建筑是财富和声望的象征，而且防火，这导致了一种可怕但有效的策略：将你的家人、财宝和货物搬到你的塔楼上，然后放火烧毁敌人的房屋，让你在城市燃烧时安全地坐在上面。这对城市来说非常糟糕。 Photo of a street corner in San Gimigniano, with several plain-sided square stone towers sticking up above the roofline against a bright blue sky.street corner in San Gimigniano 在经历了许多灾难之后，佛罗伦萨的解决方案是禁止私人建筑超过一定的高度，迫使所有拥有塔楼的人将顶部砍掉，降到规定的高度，从而在城市周围留下了这些可识别的石头残余。下面这个圆形的现在是一家餐厅。 Photograph of some buildings crammed very close together. Those on the left and right are yellow stucco with large windows. In the middle, touching both of them, is a circular section made of rough nubbly stone, that really looks like it could be the bottom part of a round castle tower, it just needs battlements or a pointy cone roof. Instead it's lopped off flat just above the roofs of the other buildings. 我最喜欢的塔楼残余是位于 Via dei Cerchi 的这座。作为一名研究生，我曾在顶层住了一年，爬了 111 级台阶！到春天，我的小腿肌肉变得非常结实，从顶层看到的景色就像有人把佛罗伦萨的海报贴在墙上一样，只不过那是一扇窗户！ Photo of a street of town buildings, all squeezed together sharing walls with no gaps between. The one on the left is yellow stucco, with an archway and a "Coin" grocery store. The one on the right is yellow stucco above with decorative faux rustic stone facing on the lower floor. In between them, about the width of one storefront, is a section where the wall is rough rubbley stone, with one small and one large arched door at the bottom, and very small windows above. The large arched door would have had a fortress gate large enough for horses to enter, but is now a tabacchi shop. Photograph through a semicircular window, showing a roofline and the tower of Florence's famous Palazzo Vecchio sticking up above. This window was in the bathroom! I had this view from the toilet! It was incredible! 只有城市建筑才允许超过规定的高度，这就是为什么佛罗伦萨的天际线现在都是特殊的建筑物：修道院钟楼、大教堂和洗礼堂、Orsanmichele 城市的粮仓（建造得很高是为了防止谷物远离水和老鼠）、政府所在地，以及一个特殊的人…… Photograph of the Florence skyline from the south side of the river. Sticking up above the sea of fairly flat tiled roofs one can see a few distinctive buildings. To the left is the battlemented Palazzo Vecchio with its tall square battlemented tower. To the right and behind it (hard to see) is the city granary. Toward the center is the red dome of San Lorenzo, and in front of it the white hexagonal pointy roof of the Baptistery. Just to the right of the baptistery is the enormous cathedral with its stripey bell tower and massive dome. In front of the cathedral are two towers, one pointy, and one square; the square one is circled in yellow and we'll zoom in on it in a moment. 右边的塔楼是 Bargello 的一部分，是监狱和警察堡垒，但它最初并非如此。它是由一个私人家庭建造的，当禁止建造塔楼的法律通过时，他们将其出售给了城市，城市将其纳入了他们的监狱堡垒。 A photograph taken from my tower apartment across the roofs of Florence. Two golden stone towers stick up above all the red tiled roofs. On the left is a pointy one with crosses on it, part of the Badia monastery. On the right is a square one with battlements and big open windows, connected to a fortress with more battlements. 城市监狱必须是一座堡垒，以防某个强大家族的人被逮捕，而该家族派人闯入监狱将他们救出（《罗密欧与朱丽叶》开场场景中那些咬拇指的人肯定会袭击监狱，把罗密欧救出来！）。 Photograph of the inside of a Medieval fortress. The interior courtyard of pale stone is surrounded by a covered loggia with rounded arches, and the walls are covered with coats of arms of past noblemen who served as captains of the police. In the center is a well, to give it is own source of water. A woman in a brown shirt stands near the well, looking very tiny in the huge courtyard. 在这张照片中，你可以看到砖砌的雉堞是后来添加的，作为塔楼从私人堡垒转变为公共建筑的一部分。 In the foreground is a stone wall with battlements. Sticking up behind it, against a bright blue sky, is the top of a stone tower. The tower itself is the same yellowish stone as the wall, but on top of the tower is a balcony area with battlements clearly added in red brick, and lined on top with metal sheeting to protect against the weather. The golden weathercock on top is on edge at the moment, and barely visible. 佛罗伦萨在拥有所有塔楼时是什么样的？它在山那边的长期盟友博洛尼亚以仍然拥有两座完好无损的塔楼而闻名，但在中世纪，博洛尼亚被称为“百塔之城”，因为如此多的家庭建造了塔楼。重建看起来绝对令人难以置信。佛罗伦萨没有那么多，但确实有几十座，所以城市中心最富有的部分看起来会很像这样。让城市消防队非常绝望！ Photo of a model of Bologna, with so many earthy pink tall skinny towers sticking up from every block of the terra-cotta-roofed town that it looks like plant seeds starting to come up in spring. Around the edge you can see the city's moat and battlemented walls, looking tiny compared to the towers which rise to six or seven times the height of the three-story buildings around them. 所以，无论是在电影中还是在街上，如果你曾经看到一座历史悠久的意大利城市，并且沿着一个街区行走，由于某种原因，其中一块墙壁是石头，而其他所有墙壁都是光滑的，你可能正在观看 Guido Ruggiero 恰如其分地称之为“意大利300年战争”的派系争斗的遗迹。 View down a street in Florence. The buildings on both sides are yellow stucco with stone windowframes, but the one at the end is naked brownish stone all the way up, with small windows one of which has a balcony outside with flowers. 我在《Inventing the Renaissance》中谈到了这场漫长的战争，这是许多连续性中的一点，表明了糟糕的“黑暗时代”和文艺复兴的“黄金时代”之间的所谓差异是 100% 的宣传，但却是具有深刻历史的迷人宣传。

在接下来的几天里，随着我们倒计时到本书的发布，我将分享更多类似的花絮！ Print Friendly, PDF & Email FacebookLiveJournalTwitterRedditLinkedInTumblrPush to KindleShare Photo of a model of Bologna, with so many earthy pink tall skinny towers sticking up from every block of the terra-cotta-roofed town that it looks like plant seeds starting to come up in spring. Around the edge you can see the city's moat and battlemented walls, looking tiny compared to the towers which rise to six or seven times the height of the three-story buildings around them. Bologna, Florence, Guelph, Inventing the Renaissance

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