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Opera nvova di fortificare, offendere et difendere : et far gli alloggiamenti campali, secondo l'uso di guerra : aggiontovi nel fine vn trattato de gl'essamini de' bombardieri, & di far fuochi arteficiati : cosa molto vtile e dilettevole

Cataneo, Girolamo · 1564 · In Brescia : Appresso Gio. Battista Bozola · 84 pictures

A 1564 Italian treatise on fortification, siege warfare and military fireworks by Girolamo Cataneo, printed in Brescia by Gio. Battista Bozola for military engineers and gunners. Its pictures are plan and axonometric diagrams of bastions, parapets and ramparts drawn in fine parallel hatching and outline, useful to a designer for stepped geometric forms, angled walls and layered architectural cross-sections.

Fortification · Military architecture · Siege warfare · Military fireworks

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