The contribution aims to analyse the area corresponding to the present Basso Polesine and Po Delta territories, considering the interactions between the Venetian patricians who invested there during the modern age and the local population. This was a true ‘dialogue with the other’, which led to a new relationship between dissimilar cultures. The Delta region was reclaimed by this ‘external will’ from the 16th century onwards, but the great hydraulic work known as Taglio di Porto Viro (1600-1604) represented a fundamental turning point. The current landscape is the result of the considerable anthropic impact: between the 17th and 18th centuries it consisted in huge investments made by the Venetians. A consequence was the realization of villas and buildings useful for the management of the territory. The manor houses became an element of alterity with a specific role in the development of small communities, made up of local labourers and peasants who continued to live in thatched or wooden huts. Finally, the paper proposes a study of the transformations that affected this territory with the support of specific examples. They testify both the ambitious projects of the rich families from Venice and the difficult conditions of the local population.
Nuove terre, altre presenze: le ville dei patrizi veneziani nel Delta del Po
Giulia Becevello
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Abstract
The contribution aims to analyse the area corresponding to the present Basso Polesine and Po Delta territories, considering the interactions between the Venetian patricians who invested there during the modern age and the local population. This was a true ‘dialogue with the other’, which led to a new relationship between dissimilar cultures. The Delta region was reclaimed by this ‘external will’ from the 16th century onwards, but the great hydraulic work known as Taglio di Porto Viro (1600-1604) represented a fundamental turning point. The current landscape is the result of the considerable anthropic impact: between the 17th and 18th centuries it consisted in huge investments made by the Venetians. A consequence was the realization of villas and buildings useful for the management of the territory. The manor houses became an element of alterity with a specific role in the development of small communities, made up of local labourers and peasants who continued to live in thatched or wooden huts. Finally, the paper proposes a study of the transformations that affected this territory with the support of specific examples. They testify both the ambitious projects of the rich families from Venice and the difficult conditions of the local population.
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