Gabrielus Angelus de Niceta (Gabriele Angelo da Nizza/Angelo Gabrielle de Stizza/Angelo Gabriele Gautieri/'tüzes Gábor'/'fiammeggiante Gabriele", fl. second half 17th cent.)
Gabrielus Angelus de Niceta (Gabriele Angelo da Nizza/Angelo Gabrielle de Stizza/Angelo Gabriele Gautieri/'tüzes Gábor'/'fiammeggiante Gabriele", fl. second half 17th cent.) OFMRef. French or Italian friar of the strict Observance. Possibly from Nice in Southern France, or otherwise from Genoa. Worked in Franciscan houses in Central/Eastern Europe. Specialist of chemistry and explosives. Heavily involved with the development of grenades and other explosive devices in the military campaigns of the Austrian armies against the Turks in Hungary in the 1680s, in the context of which he led teams of collaborators. Due to his pyrotechnic expertise, he was known as the 'Italian fire master', and as 'fiammeggiante Gabriele'. He also issued an advisory treatise on the way to re-organize Hungary after the victory over the Ottomans. This work apparently did not have an immediate impact,
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Chemical recipes for explosive devices
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Il governo dell'Ongaria. L'anno 1701 , or, edited in: Magyar történelmi tár - Collectanea historica Hungarica 2nd ser. 1 (Budapest, 1900), 219-263. See http://real-j.mtak.hu/4108/ . It amounts to a blueprint for a centralized, well-organized and well-defended state, equipped to deal with internal rebellions.
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