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Floriani da Macerata, 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 a suite of fifty-two engravings numbered 1-51 and including 14A & 14B, some are text engravings, forty-three are full page plates, and one is a large folding plate bound at the end; bound in contemporary parchment over boards, textblock broken away from binding along inner front joint; 13 1/4 x 9 1/4 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.
