ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses in its first section the surviving buildings and artworks left by the Teutonic Order in Italy, from the perspective of “originality and adaptation,” i.e. exploring how these material sources indicate a mixture of local, global and Teutonic influences. The second section is dedicated to the sources on the everyday life of the Teutonic brethren, including some inventories of the belongings of the Order's commanderies and observations on the still existing buildings. Those sources reveal that the brethren lived in a context that was identical to that of noblemen from those times, without an effective separation between them and their lay familiars.
