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(1583). MAGGI (Girolamo). DELLA FORTIFICATIONE DELLE CITTA, di Girolamo Maggi, e del capitan Iacomo Castriotto, ingegniero del christianissimo re di Francia. Venice, Camillo Borgominieri, 1583. In-folio of [4 (the last bl.)]-136 leaves, soft ivory vellum (contemporary binding). Second edition, the first having appeared in 1564. This important treatise on fortification was written by the military engineer Jacopo Fusti Castriotto (1510-1563) and the jurist and military theorist Girolamo Maggi (1523-1572). Copiously illustrated with 283 LARGE ENGRAVINGS (various views, plans of towns and ports), it is divided into three books: the first deals with town-planning issues, the second with fortifications in general, and the third with water fortifications (Venetian "da mar" fortresses) in particular. It concludes with Giovacchino da Coniano's Traité des Ordonnances ou Batailles. This treatise was a great success, making Maggi, hired in 1570 as a military engineer by the Republic of Venice, famous. A few browned leaves, a pure copy with wide margins. Handwritten annotations from the period. "Castriotto's work is the most complete treatise on fortification ever published". (Riccardi I, 299). (USTC 839568). (Mortimer italian, II, 266).
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(1583). MAGGI (Girolamo). DELLA FORTIFICATIONE DELLE CITTA, di Girolamo Maggi, e del capitan Iacomo Castriotto, ingegniero del christianissimo re di Francia. Venice, Camillo Borgominieri, 1583. In-folio of [4 (the last bl.)]-136 leaves, soft ivory vellum (contemporary binding). Second edition, the first having appeared in 1564. This important treatise on fortification was written by the military engineer Jacopo Fusti Castriotto (1510-1563) and the jurist and military theorist Girolamo Maggi (1523-1572). Copiously illustrated with 283 LARGE ENGRAVINGS (various views, plans of towns and ports), it is divided into three books: the first deals with town-planning issues, the second with fortifications in general, and the third with water fortifications (Venetian "da mar" fortresses) in particular. It concludes with Giovacchino da Coniano's Traité des Ordonnances ou Batailles. This treatise was a great success, making Maggi, hired in 1570 as a military engineer by the Republic of Venice, famous. A few browned leaves, a pure copy with wide margins. Handwritten annotations from the period. "Castriotto's work is the most complete treatise on fortification ever published". (Riccardi I, 299). (USTC 839568). (Mortimer italian, II, 266).
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