Giuseppe Francesco Ignazio Bertola born Roveda was an Italian military architect.
Biography
editBorn in 1676 in Tortona, Ignazio was the adopted son of the architect Antonio Bertola and followed in his footsteps as a military engineer.[1]
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.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 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", which was founded in 1736. In 1742 he was appointed count of Exilles by Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Ignazio Giuseppe Bertola d'Exilles (1676-1755) Archived 2012-04-20 at the Wayback Machine torinoscienza.it, retrieved 7 April 2013 (in Italian)
- 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, 1963
External links
edit- Biography on the site of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
- Antonio e Ignazio Bertola
- Ignazio Bertola