Li trastulli guerrieri
A 1668 military training manual printed in Brescia by Rizzardi and written by Marin Bresciani, aimed at soldiers learning pike handling, drill, and fencing. Its small etchings show a single soldier in a feathered hat and loose breeches, holding a long pike through a series of postures against a flat landscape with distant towns and clouds, with a plain architectural frame around each plate. A designer could take the simple, repeated figure and the clean vertical framing as a model for instructional sequences or for showing gesture and stance in a single figure.
