Firearms & fortifications : military architecture and siege warfare in sixteenth-century Siena / Simon Pepper and Nicholas Adams.

Main entry:

Pepper, Simon, author.

Title & Author:

Firearms & fortifications : military architecture and siege warfare in sixteenth-century Siena / Simon Pepper and Nicholas Adams.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Description:

xxiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235) and index.
Firearms and fortifications -- Baldaddarre Peruzzi and the modernixation Siena's medieval wars, 1527-32 -- The Spanish citadel -- Outworks and frontier fortifications, 1552-53 -- The defense of Montalcino -- The siege of Siena -- THe capture of Port'?rcole, 1555 -- Changing patterns of military architecture and siege warfare -- New patterns of military architectural practice.

ISBN:

0226005356
9780226005355
0226655342
9780226655345

Subject:

Fortification Italy Siena History 16th century.
Artillery Italy Siena History 16th century.
Siege warfare History 16th century.
Guerre de siège Histoire 16e siècle.
Artillery.
Fortification.
Siege warfare.
Siena (Italy) History, Military.
Italy Siena.
Italy Siena Siege warfare, 1525-1552

Form/genre:

History.
Military history.

Added entries:

Adams, Nicholas, 1947- author.

Firearms and fortifications

Holdings:

Location: Library main 97605
Call No.: ID:86-B19337
Status: Available

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