Description
This book offers some fresh ideas concerning the study of the remarkable fortifications that protected Baroque Malta from Turkish occupation. Its text and illustrations focus on the illustrious career of Count Giovanni Battista Vertova (1592 – 1647), a prominent yet forgotten mathematician and military engineer from Bergamo who was active within the ranks of the Knights Hospitaller of St John the Baptist during the first half of the seventeenth century. Hardcover. Published by Midsea Books Ltd 2001
