The siege of Padua in 1405
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/133Keywords:
Middle Ages, 15th Century, Padua, Siege, VeniceAbstract
The war with Venice from 1404-1405 represented a crucial moment in the history of Padua. In fact, it marked the definite end of the autonomy of the people of Padua and the passage of the city and its territory under the control of Venice. The final siege, narrated in the Chronicles of Bartolomeo Gatari, lasted almost five months and subjected Padua to a very severe test: overcrowding of man and animals within the city walls, lack of provisions, precarious health-hygiene conditions and epidemics of the plague. In this situation the relationship between the last nobleman of the city, Francesco Novello da Carrara, and the civies of Padua continued progressively to deteriorate: the emergency, in the end, induces a divaricator in the political views of one and the others, even if, at the time of surrender, the general public futilely attempted to plead in favour of the defeated nobles. Padua came out of the catastrophe with a new awareness of itself: while its civil traditions and the social regulations appeared to be well instilled, its capacity of political and military expression, of which the noblemen of Carrara were made interpreters for centuries, revealed insurmountable limits before all of the resources put on the battlefield from Venice.
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