Giovanni Battista Zanchi
Italian military engineer and author
About Giovanni Battista Zanchi
Lived 1515 – 1586 (aged 70–71). Giovanni Battista Zanchi was an Italian engineer, military personnel, architect, soldier and author.
Giovanni Battista Zanchi (1515–1586) was an Italian military engineer and author. Life Born in Pesaro in 1515 in a family originally from Bergamo, he was a captain leading 12,000 infantrymen and 500 knights for the Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma during the war against Protestants in Germany. He came back at home with honors, and served during the Siege of Siena under Marcantonio Colonna. In 1561 he was recruited to Cyprus, where he served as engineer with a salary of 50 ducats a month.
Zanchi wrote an influential treatise about defensive fortifications of the cities. Published in Venice, the text was translated and republished in France and England respectively by Francois de la Treille and Peter Whitehorne.
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Italian military engineer and author (1515-1586)
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Giovanni Battista Zanchi was born in 1515 in Pesaro.
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Giovanni Battista Zanchi died in 1586.
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Giovanni Battista Zanchi was an engineer, military personnel, architect, soldier and author.
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