Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Tensini, Francesco, 1581-1630
Title:
La fortificatione, guardia, difesa, et espugnatione delle fortezze esperimentata in diuerse guerre / del cavaliero Francco. Tensini da Crema ...
Alternate Title(s):
Fortificatione, gvardia, difesa, et espvgnatione delle fortezze esperimentata in diverse gverre
Published / Created:
In Venetia : Appresso Francesco Brogiollo, MDCLV [1655]
Physical Description:
[12], 83, [1], 83, [1], 128 pages, [50] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 40 cm (folio)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
UG443 .T46 1655+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plate 1 signed: Odoardo Fialetti fecit. In Venetia MDCXXIIII.

Title page is engraved, with elaborate architectural border; signed: Fillippo Sadeler fecit Venetia.

Errors in paging: 17 (3rd group of paging), 118 numbered 23, 116, respectively.

Errata: page [12].

"Non ė ristampa della presente [edizione del 1624] una edizione che porta la data: In Venetia, Appresso Antonio Bariletti et fratelli al Segno del mondo, 1630. Ma ė l'edizione medesima, colla mutazione solo delle sei qui sopra ricordate carte del preliminari, omessavi la Dedicatoria del Tensini al Principe e Senato Veneti."--Razzolini, p. 429.

Contains 48 numbered etchings, numbered 1-44, 23+, 32+, 35+, 36+, of which 11 are folded. Also engraved are the title page and a portrait of the author.

Signatures: pi1 [dagger]⁴ A-K⁴, ²K², ²A-I⁴ K⁶, ³A-Q⁴ a⁴(-a4).

With woodcut initials.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Cockle, M.J.D. Bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of contemporary foreign works, 813

Breman, P. Books on military arch. printed in Venice, 305

Errata on last page.
Subject Terms:
Fortification -- Early works to 1800. | Siege warfare -- Early works to 1800. | Defensive (Military science) -- Early works to 1800. | Offensive (Military science) -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Early works. | Etchings -- 1655.
Contributors:
Fialetti, Odoardo, 1573–1638, engraver. | Sadeler, Philipp, engraver. | Brogiollo, Francesco, printer.