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Giuseppe Francesco Ignazio Bertola born Roveda was an Italian military architect.
torinoscienza.it, retrieved 7 April 2013 In 1720 he was commissioned to build or renovate the new defensive system of the Duchy of Savoy whose necessity had emerged after the
Biography
on the site of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
Antonio e Ignazio BertolaIgnazio Bertola
{{Authority control 18th-century Italian architects Architects from Piedmont
Giuseppe Francesco Ignazio Bertola born Roveda was an Italian military architect.
Biography
Born in 1676 inTortona
Tortona (; pms, Torton-a , ; lat, Dhertona) is a ''comune'' of Piemonte, in the Province of Alessandria, Italy. Tortona is sited on the right bank of the Scrivia between the plain of Marengo and the foothills of the Ligurian Apennines.
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, Ignazio was the adopted son of the architect Antonio Bertola and followed in his footsteps as a military engineer.Ignazio Giuseppe Bertola d'Exilles (1676-1755)torinoscienza.it, retrieved 7 April 2013 In 1720 he was commissioned to build or renovate the new defensive system of the Duchy of Savoy whose necessity had emerged after the
Treaty of Utrecht
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.This work ended six years later, getting the approval of the military experts of the time.
He made works of civil and military engineering in Alessandria and in Fenestrelle and built the so-called "road of the guns", a trail between the valleys Varaita
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The river springs at an elevation of some on the slopes of Monviso, in the Cottian A ...
and Maira.
He held the office of ''Master of Fortresses'' and then ''First Engineer of Her Majesty''.
He was the first director of the "School of Theory and Practice of Artillery of Piedmont
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In 1742 he was appointed count
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of Exilles Exilles ( Occitan: ''Eissilhas''; nonstandard Occitan: ''Isiya''; Piedmontese: ''Isiles''; Latin: ''Excingomagus'' or ''Scingomagus''; Italianization under Italian Fascism: ''Esille'') is a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Ital ...
by Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy
Charles Emmanuel III (27 April 1701 – 20 February 1773) was Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia from 1730 until his death.
Biography
He was born in Turin to Victor Amadeus II of Savoy and his first wife the French Anne Marie d'Orléans. H ...
.
Bertola died in Turin
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in 1755.
References
* C. Brayda, L. Colli, D. Sesia, ''Ingegneri ed architetti del sei e settecento in Piemonte'', Torino, Comune di Torino e Società Ingegneri e Architetti di Torino, 1963External links
Biography
on the site of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
Antonio e Ignazio Bertola
{{Authority control 18th-century Italian architects Architects from Piedmont