Milano città militare in epoca napoleonica (1800-1814)

This article aims to fill a gap in the historiography on the Napoleonic\r\nMilan (1796-1814), providing an overall and analytic picture of the military presence\r\nin the capital city of a vast Italian State. The unpublished archives documentation,\r\nalso rich in statistical data, allows to reconstruct an overview of the armed\r\nforces – military and paramilitary – permanently present intra moenia and the\r\nlogistics that supported them. It is also proposed a preliminary assessment of the\r\nrelations between the military world and the urban civil dimension, also in a comparison\r\nboth with the Milan, as stronghold of previous historical periods (Spanish\r\nand Austrian), and with other cities of the same Napoleonic period. Ultimately, the\r\ncase of Milan does not appear to fit with the traditional imaginary that attributes a\r\nsort of ‘universal militarization’ to the Revolutionary-Napoleonic Era even in the\r\nItalian Peninsula.