page_title: Roberto Valturio
hierarchical_section_title: Roberto Valturio
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Rammbock. Darstellung aus einer 1534 in Paris erschienenen Ausgabe des Buches De Re Militari von Roberto Valturio English: Drawing of a battering ram in a volume of Roberto Valturio's book De Re Militari, printed 1534 in Paris.
context_page_description: Roberto Valturio was an Italian engineer and writer born in Rimini. He was the author of the military treatise De Re militari.
  The work consists of a preface, with a dedication to Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta; a list of the classical works mentioned and an introduction on the history of warfare. The work was widely known: the French King Louis XI of France, the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, the Duke of Urbino Federico da Montefeltro and the ruler of Florence Lorenzo de' Medici had a copy of the printed book. In Leonardo da Vinci's list of books Roberto Valturio has been mentioned. This indicates that Leonardo had been in the possession of Roberto's work.
context_section_description: Roberto Valturio (1405–1475) was an Italian engineer and writer born in Rimini. He was the author of the military treatise De Re militari (1472).
  The work consists of a preface, with a dedication to Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta; a list of the classical works mentioned and an introduction on the history of warfare. The work was widely known: the French King Louis XI of France, the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, the Duke of Urbino Federico da Montefeltro and the ruler of Florence Lorenzo de' Medici had a copy of the printed book. In Leonardo da Vinci's list of books Roberto Valturio has been mentioned. This indicates that Leonardo had been in the possession of Roberto's work.
caption: Extract of De Re Militari, printed in 1534 in Paris.
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