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59 - THETI (Carlo). Discorsi delle fortificationi, espugnationi, …
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THETI (Carlo). Discorsi delle fortificationi, espugnationi, & difese delle città, & d'altri luoghi. Diviso in libri otto. Venice, Francesco de Franceschi [- Nicolò Moretti], [1588]-1589. 3 parts in one folio volume, limp vellum, traces of binding (contemporary binding). First complete edition of this important treatise on military architecture and fortification, lavishly illustrated. This is the third edition of the work, and the first in folio format, in which books III to VIII appear for the first time. The original Roman edition of 1569, published without the author's consent, included only the first book; the second appeared in the second edition, published in Venice in 1575. Lavishly illustrated with woodcuts, including numerous figures, plans and diagrams in the text and eleven double-page plates outside the text, one of which is repeated (pp. 26-27 and 84-85 of the second part). Carlo Theti or Teti (1529-1589) was an architect, theoretician and military engineer trained at the University of Naples. He worked for Maximilian II in Hungary and, in Italy, for the houses of Savoy in Turin, Este in Ferrara and Medici in Florence, contributing in particular to the fortifications of Bergamo and Verona. A copy by Federico Ghisliero, copiously annotated in pen in Italian in the margins of the text and some plates, with a handwritten bookplate on the title. Federico Fabio Ghisliero (1560-1622?), an engineer and military theorist born in Bosco Marengo, Piedmont, was an infantry captain, then sergeant-major general of the ecclesiastical state, and finally lieutenant in the Duke of Savoy's regiment of guards. He was the author of a treatise on fencing published in Parma in 1587 under the title Regole di molti cavagliereschi essercitii, as well as several treatises on fortification, written while he was military adviser to the Duke of Savoy: Discorso sopra l'espugnatione della fortezza di Canissa (1602), Discorso in materia di fortificazioni (1613), Trattato in risposta al serenissimo di Savoia se la città di Torino debba fortificarsi (1619), etc., a large part of which was destroyed when the Turin University Library burned down in 1904. An attractive copy in its first soft vellum binding. On the first cover are two sketches, inscriptions and accounts formerly drawn in brown ink. Vellum a little creased and stained with very slight edgewear, tear without loss to plate V5. The first occurrence of the repeated plate is missing in this copy, which therefore comprises only ten double plates. Marini, 26 - Cockle, n°776 - Riccardi, I/2, 517 - Graesse, VI/2, 105 - CNCE 28443.
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