Abstract
Renowned for Baroque architectural masterpieces such as the Chapel of the Holy Shroud and the Church of San Lorenzo, both in Torino, Guarino Guarini (1624–1683) also composed a treatise on fortification, published in 1676. At the time Guarini was part of the Savoy Court and was tutor to Prince Ludovico Giulio di Carignano, a relative of the Duke of Savoy. After a brief presentation of the events in Guarini’s life leading up to his residency in the Savoy city of Turin, and a description of the science of military architecture in his day, this present paper discusses Guarini’s treatise and compares it to the work of his contemporaries, Claude-Francois Milliet Dechales (1621–1678) and Nicolas-Francois Blondel (1618–1686).
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