Fra Giocondo (among others) would like a word with you: > The second siege was that of Padua in 1509. A monk engineer named Fra Giocondo, trusted with the defe

Fra Giocondo (among others) would like a word with you: > The second siege was that of Padua in 1509. A monk engineer named Fra Giocondo, trusted with the defence of the Venetian city, cut down the city's medieval wall and surrounded the city with a broad ditch that could be swept by flanking fire from gun ports set low in projections extending into the ditch. Finding that their cannon fire made little impression on these low ramparts, the French and allied besiegers made several bloody and fruitless assaults and then withdrew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_fort#Effectiveness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_fort#Effectiveness