Carlo Teti, Discorsi delle fortificationi, espugnationi, & difese delle città, & d'altri luoghi ..., Vicenza, 1617.
Carlo Teti (1529-1589), a Neapolitan engineer, skilled surveyor and urban planner, served, among others, the Colonna family, Emperor Maximilian II and the Republic of Venice. Designer of the 1560 plan of Naples, Teti is particularly renowned for this treatise, of which we own a copy from the 1617 edition.
A first version of the work came out in 1569 in Rome, printed by Giulio Accolto, in four books. Subsequently, Teti changed the structure of the work, which was published in 1589 in Venice by Franceschi with additions and extensions, and then in Vicenza in 1617.
In the treatise, articulated in eight books, Teti's purpose was to illustrate to the reader, also through drawings and tables, the various elements that make up a fortification and how to defend it.