Glossary entry

Italiano term or phrase:

piazza di sortita

Inglese translation:

outer ward/courtyard

Added to glossary by Kimberly De Haan
Dec 20, 2013 09:37
10 yrs ago
Italiano term

piazza di sortita

Da Italiano a Inglese Scienze sociali Storia Renaissance fortresses
In a text describing the fortified city of Palmanova:

Mobilità delle forze dall’interno verso l’esterno entro uno spazio preventivamente organizzato per la difesa

Rispetto alla condizione di svantaggio informativo che penalizza l’attaccante, il difensore dispone di una costante capacità di aggiornamento informativo controllando i movimenti della parte avversa attraverso le proprie postazioni che, per l’esterno sono non visibili, ma svolgono anche una funzione attiva di vedetta.
Per contrastare l’attacco, la difesa dispone di tre cerchie di postazioni attive e passive, collegate tra loro da percorsi coperti, non soggetti al fuoco nemico a cielo scoperto o realizzati in galleria, con piazze vive, **piazze di sortita**, con fossati, parapetti e terrapieni.

Can anyone help?
Proposed translations (Inglese)
3 +1 outer ward/courtyard
3 barbican

Proposed translations

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outer ward/courtyard

See earlier question. I think this was the outer ward or courtyard - i'e open area. I have also found sortie courtyard but only once:
31 - Oil on canvas
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... Adoration of the Christ Child / spine stretcher / La Premiere Sortie / Courtyard of the Castle at Kaningstein f / Self Portrait with Hat qq / Bathing Girls -34- / BRIL, ...

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Have a look at this:
The ward was the open area which I think is what is referred to in your text.
Estalia Castle, Almondsey - Estalia.Net
www.estalia.net/estalia/estalia.htm‎Traduci questa pagina
The outcrop is on two distinct levels (Barbican and Upper Wards), with the Outer precinct (Lower and Middle Wards) to the east. There is a ravine on the south ...
Peer comment(s):

agree P.L.F. Persio : brava Isabelle e di nuovo auguri!
46 min
Thanks very much e auguri di nuovo anche a te!
neutral philgoddard : Sorry, this may be right, but you haven't shown that the Italian and English terms are equivalents.
6 ore
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
25 min

barbican

See example sentence. Without a plan of the castle it is difficult to be sure.
Example sentence:

"Barbican: In medieval fortification, an outwork of a castle or fortified place. Properly, a post in which a force could be sheltered so as to be ready for a sortie to protect communications, etc. "

Peer comment(s):

neutral Isabelle Johnson : see above
5 min
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