Matériaux, travaux et ouvriers dans le Libro della fabbrica de Pratolino en 1575

Un manuscrit intitulé Libro delle bestie di Firenze e fabbrica di Pratolino (1575), conservé à l’Université de Pennsylvanie à Philadelphie, permet de connaître, à un moment central pour la réalisation des jardins, les matériaux, les travaux et les ouvriers employés sur le chantier de la Villa de Pratolino, au nord de Florence, commandé par François Ier de Medicis et conçu sous la direction de Bernardo Buontalenti de 1568 à 1586. La réalisation de la prodigieuse machine hydraulique de Pratolino est confiée aux ouvriers locaux, qui avaient appris les techniques d’ingénierie. On relève le nom du maître d’œuvre Davide Fortini, expert en génie hydraulique, actif en Toscane du milieu à la fin du xvie siècle et gendre de Niccolò Pericoli dit « il Tribolo » (vers 1500-1550). Le document de 1575 mentionne également des noms d’artisans, de maîtres maçons, de tailleurs de pierre, de charpentiers, ainsi que les différents matériaux qui arrivent dans la cour ; aussi, il cite le nom de « Tommaso di Gio. Parigi » représentant d’Alfonso Gondi.A manuscript entitled Libro delle bestie di Firenze e fabbrica di Pratolino (1575), kept at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, allows us to know, at a central time for the creation of gardens, the materials, building work and workers employed on the construction site of the Villa of Pratolino, in the north of Florence. The villa was commissioned by Francesco I de’ Medici and designed under the direction of Bernardo Buontalenti from 1568 to 1586. The production of Pratolino’s prodigious hydraulic machine is entrusted to local workers, who had learned engineering techniques. We note the name of the master builder Davide Fortini, an expert in hydraulic engineering, active in Tuscany from the middle to the end of the 16th century, the son-in-law of Niccolò Pericoli known as “il Tribolo” (circa 1500-1550). The 1575 document also mentions the names of craftsmen, master masons, stonecutters, carpenters, as well as the various materials that arrived in the courtyard; it also mentions the name of “Tommaso di Gio. Parigi”, representing Alfonso Gondi

“Acconciar grotti” alla villa di Pratolino e nei giardini del castello dei Gondi a Noisy-le-Roi

The “Libro delle bestie di Firenze e fabbrica di Pratolino” of 1575 which is kept at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, includes the name of the Gondi as administrators of the accounts of the construction. In the same period in Noisy-le-Roi, on the hill north of the valley of Versailles and on the edge of the Marly forest, Alberto Gondi (1522-1602), Duke of Retz and Marshal of France, right arm of the Queen mother, commissioned the construction of a castle with large gardens, which was later destroyed. In Noisy, Alberto Gondi began the construction of a grotto represented in a series of engravings by Jean Marot (1619-1679), but the recent archaeological excavations carried out in 2017 by Bruno Bentz, show that the architectural plan was possibly inverted. In the creation of the grotto, evidence was found of Florentine

Squat to Work. Squatted Workspaces, the Commons and Solidarity Economies in Europe

Inspired by recuperated enterprises in Latin America, squatted workspaces have emerged across Southern Europe in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. Using the literature on European squatting, the concept of the commons and an action research in a squatted workspace in Milan, Italy, the paper explores the re-emergence of this type of squatting and its relation to solidarity economies in contemporary Europe. The paper examines how precarious workers have used squatting to establish self-managed workspaces to access income and to reinvent work and economic relations beyond capitalism. The paper also investigates the ambivalent role of squatting in supporting the establishment of solidarity economies

Squat to Work. Squatted Workspaces, the Commons and Solidarity Economies in Europe

Inspired by recuperated enterprises in Latin America, squatted workspaces have emerged across Southern Europe in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. Using the literature on European squatting, the concept of the commons and an action research in a squatted workspace in Milan, Italy, the paper explores the re-emergence of this type of squatting and its relation to solidarity economies in contemporary Europe. The paper examines how precarious workers have used squatting to establish self-managed workspaces to access income and to reinvent work and economic relations beyond capitalism. The paper also investigates the ambivalent role of squatting in supporting the establishment of solidarity economies

Squat to Work. Squatted Workspaces, the Commons and Solidarity Economies in Europe

Inspired by recuperated enterprises in Latin America, squatted workspaces have emerged across Southern Europe in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. Using the literature on European squatting, the concept of the commons and an action research in a squatted workspace in Milan, Italy, the paper explores the re-emergence of this type of squatting and its relation to solidarity economies in contemporary Europe. The paper examines how precarious workers have used squatting to establish self-managed workspaces to access income and to reinvent work and economic relations beyond capitalism. The paper also investigates the ambivalent role of squatting in supporting the establishment of solidarity economies.<br /