A Venetian military engineer, who trained in the new science of war, risked exile, ruin and death to defend Rhodes against Suleiman the Magnificent, embodies Europe in transition.
For 14 years, Gabriele Tadino had faithfully served the Republic of Venice. One of the new breed of soldier, the military engineers, Tadino had done well in service of the Republic. The son of a doctor from Martinengo, a small town that was part of Venice’s Stato da...