T A B L E.

Width of the earthwork — — — 15
The greatest ruin of earth shelters is rain — — — 16
Low-lying plazas must be secured from water — — — 16
Fortresses must be in straight lines in all their parts — — — 20
Length of the brushwood — — — 51
The chains must be nailed — — — 52
The chains must be long — — — 53
The ends of the chains must not impede anything of the length of the stipa brushwood — — 53
Timber for lattices — — — 54
The lote turf blocks must be placed two by line — — 58
The stipa will be laid thickly or thinly according to the haste one has — — 58
Sprinkling water on the lote for the parapet has a good effect — — 60
Plazas must be leveled with diligence — — — 60
Retained water harms the shelters — — — 61
The leveling of plazas must be done with solid material — — — 61
Man must not operate by chance but with reason — — — 69
Noble and great works must be conserved with greater study than those less noble or less important — — — 70
The conservation of states is the most noble action that a Prince can do — — — 70
Wall facings are useful — — — 71
Masonry fortresses are to us in place of the great buildings of the ancients — — — 75
Fortresses have a more noble end than the buildings of the ancients — — — 75
Facings must be royal meaning: substantial or high-quality — — — 84
The forms must be made of equal lote — — — 76
The second embrasures form the line of the counterscarp — — — 81
The first operation after digging the foundation is planting the regoli guiding rules — — — 81
Our operations are subject to evil tongues — — — 87

Measure shared in feet or arm-lengths braccia — — — 4
Better is one cannon embrasure and a strong shoulder than two embrasures with a weak shoulder — — — 7
Merlon or dent in the flank — — — 8