This work is a detailed early modern city plan of Milan, presented under its Latin name “MEDIOLANVM”, prominently inscribed at the top center. It forms part of a chorographic atlas devoted to Italian cities and regions, combining cartography, urban description, and military engineering. The composition is strikingly circular, depicting Milan as a near-perfect ring. This idealized geometry emphasizes civic order and defensive coherence rather than strict topographical accuracy. The city is enclosed by a continuous bastioned enceinte, rendered with sharp angular bastions, curtain walls, and a surrounding moat-hallmarks of the trace italienne system developed in Renaissance Italy to withstand artillery warfare.
This is a reproduction print of a historical map
