Giovanni Battista Vertova (Code of Federal Regulations. Title 36, 2000, Pts 1-199)

This book is a study of the remarkable fortifications that protected baroque Malta from Turkish occupation. It focuses on the career of Count Giovanni Battista Vertova (1592-1647), a prominent yet forgotten mathematician and military engineer from Bergamo. This book includes two old plans of the Grand Harbour and Valletta dated 1633, but never published.