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Floriani, Pietro Paolo (1585-1638) Difesa et Offesa delle Piazze.
Venice: Francesco Baba, 1654.
Folio, second edition, engraved title page, full-page engraved author portrait, illustrated with text engravings, forty-three full page plates, and one folding plate; a very large, untrimmed copy, bound in original contemporary paper binding, 14 x 9 3/4 in.
Floriana, Italian military architect and engineer, was involved in multiple fortification projects in response to fears of an invasion of southern Europe from North Africa. He also did work in Vienna, Hungary, and Valletta, the capital of Malta. On the island republic, he designed the eponymous Floriana Lines, as a defense that eventually grew into a fortified town also named after its designer.
