BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

 

Author(s)

Cataneo, Girolamo
De Tournes, Jean (translator)
Title

De arte bellica...
Imprint [Geneva], J. de Tournes, 1600
Localisation Philadelphie, University of Pennsylvania Library, U101.C25165 1600
Subject

Military architecture
Transcribed version of the text

French

     After publishing the first edition in French of Girolamo Cataneo’s Capitaine in Lyon in 1574, Jean II de Tournes offered a revised edition in French and in Latin in Geneva where he had settled. These editions are of comparable quality to those he had printed in Lyon. In the Latin translation the translator’s address was deleted and the table of contents was moved to the end of the book.

Frédérique Lemerle (Centre national de la recherche scientifique,
Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours) – 2012

Critical bibliography

A. Cartier, Bibliographie des éditions des De Tournes imprimeurs lyonnais, introduction and appendices by M. Audin and a bibliographical note by E. Vial, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1937-1938, n° 707 (reed. : Geneva, Slatkine Reprints, 1970).

M. D. Pollak, Military Architecture, Cartography and the Representation of the Early Modern European City, A Checklist of Treatises on Fortification in the Newberry Library, Chicago, Newberry Library, 1991, n° 7.