SITO IN COSTRUZIONE
YEAR 1472
One City, Its People, Their Stories
Piazza Comune (1472). Today: Piazza Garibaldi, also known as the “Piazzetta,” as seen from Corso Alberto Pio.
THE NOVEL
A collective narrative set in fifteenth-century Carpi, where the lives of artisans, merchants, and men of power intertwine in the process of the city’s transformation.
The places are reconstructed with precision using the methods of the archaeology of measurement. As Friar Guglielmo says in the story: “For if memory is fragile, it is measurement that preserves what time erases. Lime crumbles and brick decays, but measurement does not fear the rain.”
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The Main Characters
Meet the people who shape the story. Artisans, farmers, friars, and men of power — each of them reveals a different face of life in 1472. Through their choices, struggles, and relationships, a changing world gradually takes form. Their stories are the thread that weaves the life of the city together.
CARPI IN 1472
It is a growing city, on the threshold of a transformation that will turn it from a medieval castle into a Renaissance princely seat.
Five videos tell the story of the city.
Discover how houses were built, how water wheels worked, and what the surrounding landscape was like.
METHOD/APPROACH
Deepen your understanding of the methods that make it possible to apply the archaeology of measurement to historic cities and buildings, leading to new insights and contributing to the knowledge derived from documentary sources.
Side window of the church of Carpi (La Sagra), composed of squares and rectangles with sides in a 1:2 ratio.
