Giuseppe Francesco Ignazio Bertola born Roveda was an Italian military architect.

Biography

Born in 1676 in

Tortona Tortona (; , ; ) 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 Spinetta Marengo, Marengo and the foothills of the Ligurian Apennines. Its ''frazione'' of ...

, 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)
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whose necessity had emerged after the

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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 Alessandria (; ) is a city and commune in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. It is also the largest municipality of the region. The city is sited on the alluvial plain between the Tanaro and the Bormida rivers, ...

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

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", which was founded in 1736. In 1742 he was appointed

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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 Itali ...

Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy Charles Emmanuel III (27 April 1701 – 20 February 1773) was Duke of Savoy, List of monarchs of Sardinia, King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from his Victor Amadeus II, father's abdication on 3 September 1730 until his death ...

. Bertola died in

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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, 1963

External links

Biography
on the site of the

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