L’imaginaire symbolique de la Renaissance dans les paysages urbains de trois univers de fantasy contemporains

This paper studies the cities imagined by Jean-Philippe Jaworski, Scott Lynch and Charlotte Bousquet, according to the patterns of Italian 15^th and 16^th century cities, from which they borrow landscapes, social and political structures, or more generally an atmosphere, thus making the Renaissance a fruitful alternative to the Middle Ages for contemporary fantasy.