In his book «Compendio della Fortificatione Militare », Giusto Emilio Alberghetti deals with the various variations and types of military fortifications. He discusses for example the advantages, as well as the disadvantages of different locations to build and sustain a fortification (mountain tops, islands, etc.), the universal principles of military architecture in general and the geometric characteristics of the different types of fortifications. In addition, the reader can benefit from numerous illustrations about the structures and geometric principles. Those illustrations can often be found in fold-out pages.
The beginning of the book consists of a short introduction, aswell as a table of contents to give the reader some orientation. After that, the book itself is structured into two parts: The first part is about defensive military architecture, whereas the second part deals with offensive military architecture. The parts themselves are split into chapters. The first part (“Parte Prima”) consists of 14 chapters, the second part (“Parte Seconda”) is shorter with only four chapters. The beginning of the book consists of a short introduction, aswell as a table of contents to give the reader some orientation.
With a length of 350mm, a breadth of 245mm and a height of 17mm, the book fits into the “Folio” standard book size. The total number of pages (including blank pages) is 44. 32 of the 44 pages are numbered with page numbers. The book contains 18 illustrations.
