in from the mainland.Footnote4This cistern-system represented the exclusive source of fresh water for the city’s population for both domestic and industrial uses. It was arguably every bit as complex to maintain and manage as any of the “monumental” infrastructures that characterised other Italia...
Thus, in May 1348, during the first deadly plague epidemic, and on his deathbed due to it, the merchant Marco Arian left 300 gold ducats for the construction of two "wells", to be "common to the people and good men of this parish", in Campo dell'Angelo Raffaele.6 By July of the ...