20-09-2021, 06:35 PM
Perception depends on history. So it helps to fill in the history.
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In the second half, there is a list of Ghibelline cities, a number of which have yet to make it onto the map.
I tried searching 'fortifications' and 'Assisi' and also with 'Forli' and got pictures of swallowtail merlons, but not certain of authenticity or dating.
Swallowtail merlons have their Ghibelline origins, but by the time of the 1400s, there have already been several intervening layers of historical events, somewhat tied to the past - of course. Meanwhile, sort of on the side, Venice, as an independent state, adopts the use of the swallowtail merlon and passes that construction down the Adriatic and apparently on to Rhodes.
Not only would a traveler to Rome, coming from the north or west surely see the swallowtail merlons of Northern Italy, there would also be the probability that travelers sailing from the east, through Rhodes to Venice, would find these merlons as well.
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In the second half, there is a list of Ghibelline cities, a number of which have yet to make it onto the map.
I tried searching 'fortifications' and 'Assisi' and also with 'Forli' and got pictures of swallowtail merlons, but not certain of authenticity or dating.
Swallowtail merlons have their Ghibelline origins, but by the time of the 1400s, there have already been several intervening layers of historical events, somewhat tied to the past - of course. Meanwhile, sort of on the side, Venice, as an independent state, adopts the use of the swallowtail merlon and passes that construction down the Adriatic and apparently on to Rhodes.
Not only would a traveler to Rome, coming from the north or west surely see the swallowtail merlons of Northern Italy, there would also be the probability that travelers sailing from the east, through Rhodes to Venice, would find these merlons as well.