During the Middle Ages, Sardinia was of the utmost importance among the ambitions of the great Mediterranean powers of the time: the maritime republics of Pisa and Genoa, the Empire, the Papacy and the Crown of Aragon. With the use of primary sources from archives, original chronicles and Dante's immortal verses of the Divine Comedy, this books intends to re-live the fiercest battles fought on the island and the biographies of many important figures, such as Brancaleone Doria and Eleanor of Arborea, Count Ugolino della Gherardesca and Nino Visconti, Enzo of Sardinia and Peter IV of Aragon, which recount and recreate a Medieval Sardinia rich of European and Mediterranean history.
La Sardegna in epoca medioevale è stata al centro degli interessi di grandi potenze mediterranee: le Repubbliche marinare di Pisa e Genova, L'Impero, il Papato e la Corona d'Aragona. In questo libro, attraverso la lettura dei documenti archivistici, delle cronache e degli immortali versi danteschi della Divina Commedia, rivivono le più cruente battaglie mai combattute nell'isola e le biografie di molti personaggi storici, da Brancaleone Doria e Eleonora d'Arborea al conte Ugolino della Gherardesca e Nino Visconti, da Enzo Hohenstaufen di Svevia a Pietro IV d'Aragona, che raccontano e ricostruiscono un Medioevo sardo ricco di storia europea e mediterranea.
Battaglie e protagonisti della Sardegna medioevale
Alessandra Cioppi
2008
Abstract
During the Middle Ages, Sardinia was of the utmost importance among the ambitions of the great Mediterranean powers of the time: the maritime republics of Pisa and Genoa, the Empire, the Papacy and the Crown of Aragon. With the use of primary sources from archives, original chronicles and Dante's immortal verses of the Divine Comedy, this books intends to re-live the fiercest battles fought on the island and the biographies of many important figures, such as Brancaleone Doria and Eleanor of Arborea, Count Ugolino della Gherardesca and Nino Visconti, Enzo of Sardinia and Peter IV of Aragon, which recount and recreate a Medieval Sardinia rich of European and Mediterranean history.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.