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Macerata, Giuliano Carboni, 1630. In 2nd. Chalcographic title page, portrait of the author, 50 numbered plates and 1 unnumbered one, missing the last folded paper, pl. 18-20 loose, reinforcement at table 32, small stain that affects the text in V1, light browning, more intense on a few cards, slight blooms, woodworm work on the upper margin of several cards, coeval binding in floppy parchment, traces of the handwritten title on the spine, some halo, slight defects.
Specialist Notes
Rare edition of this treatise on military fortifications and city defense strategies by the military architect and engineer Pietro Paolo Floriani (1585-1638). Captain of the imperial army, in 1627 he was appointed deputy castellan of Castel Sant’Angelo and in 1629 he was commissioned to complete the defensive walls of Ferrara. Such was his fame that, fearing new Ottoman attacks, Cardinal Fabio Chigi (future Pope Alexander VII) and Grand Master Antoine de Paule gave him the task of creating the second wall of Valletta in Malta, fortifications still known today. such as Floriana Lines .
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