Pratica militare per ben costruire tutte le opere di campagna : ad uso degli uffiziali di fanteria
Pratica militare is a 1795 Turin military manual by Giuseppe Ogliani, printed by the Stamperia Derossi for infantry officers learning field fortification. Its plates are numbered engineering diagrams of trenches, ramparts, bastions and star forts in plan and cross-section, with lettered keys and measured scale bars. A designer could take from them the clean, schematic logic of angular geometric layouts, with stepped profiles and star-shaped plans as reusable structural motifs.
