A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other Oriental bows of mediæval and later times

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Stella flourished at the end of the fourteenth century and beginning of fifteenth. He wrote The Annals of Genoa from 1298–1409. Muratori includes the writings of Stella in his great work, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, 25 vols., 1723–38.

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