Fortifications

Buonaiuto Lorini, Le fortificationi ... Doue si mostra, con la scienza, e con la pratica, l'ordine di fortificare le città, & altri luoghi, Venezia, 1609

The first edition of this architectural treatise was printed in Venice in 1596. Our specimen is part of the third edition of 1609, which came increased with a sixth book.

The Treatise, which circulated widely across Europe, is important for the methodological principles underpinning the important operations of surveying the sites and for its indications on how to calulate timing and costs as well as reuse of existing fortifications. Lorini Buonaiuto (around 1540-1611) is famous for the construction of the fortified city of Palmanova.

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