This book aims to bring to the attention of both military architecture specialists and simple architecture enthusiasts, an important, but little known, aspect of the Latin American history, through the emblematic case of the Antonellis, a family of military engineers and architects at the service of the Spanish Crown in the 16th and 17th centuries, which wrote one of the most important chapters in the history of the Hispano-American military architecture. The author, Graziano Gasparini, is an architect former full professor of History of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Caracas of the Central University of Venezuela and Doctor Honoris Causa of the same University. (Spanish Edition)