Tiburzio Spannocchi’s project for the fortifications of Fuenterrabía in 1580

Fuenterrabía (Hondarribia) is a town located on the Franco-Spanish border. Between the 16th and 19th centuries it was considered to be one of the most outstanding strongholds in the Basque Country due to its strategic position. The bastion system of fortification was extremely prevalent in this stronghold. It was one of the first Spanish towns to adopt the incipient Renaissance designs of the bastion. The military engineers subsequently carried out continuous fortification projects that enabled the structure to withstand the advances being made in artillery and siege tactics. After the construction of the citadel of Pamplona had begun in 1571, following the design of the prestigious military engineer, Jacobo Palear Fratín and being revised by Viceroy Vespasiano Gonzaga, the aforementioned engineer undertook an ambitious project commissioned by Felipe II to modernise the fortifications of Fuenterrabía. Neither the plans nor the report of this project have been conserved, but in the year 2000, César Fernández Antuña published the report written by Spannocchi on the state of the fortifications of Fuenterrabía when he arrived to the Spanish peninsula, discovered in the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Zaragoza. This document conducts an in-depth analysis of Spannocchi’s project and how it was related to Fratín’s previous project. It concludes that this project encountered problems in updating the new bastions at the end of the 16th century, and identifies the factors which prevented the stronghold from being extended as was the case in Pamplona after Fratín’s project.

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legendae Sanctorum : authore Jacobo de Voragine, Januensi, ordinis Praedicatorum.

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historia Caroli Magni : authore Turpino, Remensi Archiepiscopo ; ad calcem nonnulla subjiciuntur, quae in impressis codicibus desiderantur, scilicet : 1.° narratio de Gratianopoli, à Rotolando Comite divinitùs expugnata : 2.° capitulum de morte et sepultura Turpini, qui Viennae Allobrogum diem suum obiisse dicitur : 3.° commentariolus de his quae post Caroli Magni mortem Galaeciae acciderunt. — 2.° Epistola Calixti, Papae, qua libello quem ediderat de sancto Jacobo Apostolo, authenticitatem tribuit, et ejusdem lecturam in refectorio Monachorum commendat. — 3.° Vita sanctorum Amici et Amelii. — 4.° Narratio de quodam Indorum Patriarcha, qui cùm Romam venisset tempore Calixti, Papae II. mira de urbe Ulna, quae totius regni Indici caput esse dicitur, et miracula varia beati Thomae, Indorum Apostoli, commemoravit. — 5.° Brevis descriptio locorum sanctorum in Oriente.

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Catalogus bibliothecæ Thuanæ a clariss. VV. Petro & Jacobo Puteanis, ordine alphabetico primùm distributus . Tum secundum scientias & artes à clariss. viro Ismaele Bullialdo digestus. Nunc vero editus à Josepho Quesnel, parisino & bibliothecario. Cum indice alphabetico authorum.

[Vente (Livres). 1679. Paris]

Catalogus bibliothecæ Thuanæ a clariss. VV. Petro & Jacobo Puteanis, ordine alphabetico primùm distributus . Tum secundum scientias & artes à clariss. viro Ismaele Bullialdo digestus. Nunc vero editus à Josepho Quesnel, parisino & bibliothecario. Cum indice alphabetico authorum.

[Vente (Livres). 1679. Paris]