Pedro Navarro (circa 1460-1528), count of Olivetto, and Spanish military engineer. Navarro, an expert in mines and blowing up fortifications, is consi

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Pedro Navarro (circa 1460-1528), count of Olivetto, and Spanish military engineer. Navarro, an expert in mines and blowing up fortifications, is considered to have been the finest military engineer of his time. He served in numerous wars, including the Neapolitan War and the War of the League of Cambrai. This woodcut portrait is from the 1575 Basle edition of Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium (Praise of Men Illustrious for Courage in War) by the Italian historian and biographer Paolo Giovio (1483-1552).

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