Resumen de Rationalizzazione dello spazio urbano: la forma 'civitatis' e la misura nelle descrizioni della Milano tardomedievale

Anna Pomierny Wąsińska

• Article presents the phenomenon of rationalisation of urban space on the example of late medieval Milan. Its main goal is to discuss and compare the use of mathematical tools and measurements in literary descriptions of urban form created in De magnalibus Mediolani of Bonvesin de la Riva (1288) and Cronica Extravagans of Galvano Fiamma (late 1330’s)