Difesa et offesa delle piazze

Floriani, Pietro Paolo, 1585-1638 · 1654 · In Venetia : Per Francesco Baba · 30 pictures

Difesa et offesa delle piazze is a 1654 Venetian treatise on fortification and siege warfare by the engineer Pietro Paolo Floriani, printed by Francesco Baba for military readers. Its pictures are copperplate engravings of star-shaped bastioned fortresses shown as plans and bird's-eye views, with earthworks, trenches, and siege tools drawn in fine hatched line that a designer could borrow for geometric, schematic diagrams.

Fortification -- Early works to 1800 · Siege warfare -- Early works to 1800

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