Libro dell'arte della guerra
Machiavelli's Libro dell'arte della guerra, printed in Venice in 1540 by the heirs of Aldus, is a Renaissance Italian treatise on military organisation and tactics. The first two pictures are plans of a fortified camp with rows of tents, labelled artillery and munitions zones, and a central street, drawn in fine ink lines on a grid; the third is a column of small stylised symbols, useful to a designer for diagrammatic rhythm and repeated marks.
