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Gennaro Maria D'Afflitto (1618 – 1673) was an Italian Dominican friar and military engineer.

Biography

Gennaro Maria D'Afflitto was born in Naples in 1618. On 16 September 1633, he entered the Dominican convent of Santa Maria della Sanità, Naples.^[1] He received a good scientific and humanistic education, and developed a keen interest in mathematics. He was appointed professor of mathematics in the Academia de Matematicas y Arquitectura Militar of Madrid, founded by Philip II in 1583. Particularly skilled in the art of fortification, he served as military engineer under Don John Joseph of Austria and took part in several campaigns in Catalonia and the Southern Netherlands.^[1] In the following years, he became an advisor to the Republic of Genoa on engineering matters, and worked on the fortifications of Savona and Vado Ligure.^[1] He died at Naples in 1673.^[2]

Works

D'Afflitto published at Madrid a treatise on fortifications in two volumes, De Munitione et Fortificatione, Libri duo. The first volume is dedicated to Don John Joseph of Austria. Abstracts of this work were published at Florence in 1665, by Captain Giovanni Battista Sergiuliani, and in 1667 by Filippo Domenico Mazzenghi. Likewise, he is the author of Compendio de modernas fortificaciones (Compendium of Modern Fortifications), translated into Spanish in 1657 by Baltasar Siscara. He left in manuscript Terra seu quadripartites orbis, Compendio della Sfera universale, and a number of poems and miscellaneous tracts on philosophical and theological topics.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Signorelli 1985.
^ Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) (1842). Biographical Dictionary. London: Longman. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Bibliography

Signorelli, Bruno (1985). "D'AFFLITTO, Gennaro Maria". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 31: Cristaldi–Dalla Nave (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
Albornoz y Galbeño, Juan Carrillo de. "Genaro María Aflitto". Diccionario biográfico español. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 19 November 2024.

[FOOTNOTESignorelli1985-1] Signorelli 1985.

[2] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) (1842). Biographical Dictionary. London: Longman. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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