Dve dialoghi di m. Iacomo de' Lanteri da Paratico, bresciano : ne i qvali s'introdvce messer Girolamo Catanio nouarese, & messer Francesco Treuisi ingegnero veronese, con un giouene bresciano, à ragionare del modo di disegnare le piante delle fortezze secondo Euclide : et del modo di comporre i modelli, & torre in disegno le piante delle città
Dve dialoghi by Giacomo de' Lanteri of Paratico, a Brescian writer, printed in Venice in 1557 by Valgrisi and Costantini, is a dialogue treatise on drawing fortress plans and city plans in the manner of Euclid, aimed at military engineers and architects. Its diagrams are geometric construction figures: squares with inscribed arcs, lettered points, and angled lines and curved bastion outlines that show how to lay out ground plans step by step.
