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>>19402154
I have actually studied this subject extensively because I worked with a museum to design a digital rendition of another high middle ages Italian city. I'm an architect whose bachelor degree is in architectural history(with a speciality in vernacular Italian architecture.)
You are not understanding
>I’ve seen the actual pictures of the two towers. If the rest of them looked like that it still wouldn’t look like that artistic rendition.
The majority of medieval urban towers were completely demolished in the 14th century as the magnate dominated order of "good men" consensus based governance was overtaken by a more legalist system that was either ruled by a podesta(or equivalent) or by a series of councils dominated by guilds. The towers represented opposition to this order and a period of intense violence within the cities between the ruling families. The towers that remained were shortened considerably and had to he lower than buildings like the church or "town hall". So what you see today is not a representative of their original height, especially in large cities like Bologna
>This would mean that the towers would be as high as late 20th/early 21st century skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa if the drawing is supposed to be to scale
Can't tell if this is bait or you have a genuine issue with perception of scale