Books for captains and captains in books

shaping the perfect military commander in Early Modern Europe

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Marco Faini, Maria Elena Sever ...
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English
Pages
191

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Books for captains and captains in books: shaping the perfect military commander in Early Modern Europe
2016, Harrassowitz Verlag, Herzog August Bibliothek
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Table of Contents

1.
Comparison of ancient and modern models : the classical sources and their uses.
Virtus under fire : Renaissance leaders in a deadlier battlefield -- Gastone Breccia ;
"Armirte Wachsamkeit und militarische Verfassung" : Johann Nicolaus Flämizers Politico-militarischer Staats-Minister Oder vielmehr: Prudentia politico-militaris von 1688 -- Wolfgang E.J. Weber -- 2.
The library of the army commander : treatises, historiography and technical manuals.
Military strategies versus "Humanae litterae" : the rules of Domenico Mora, chief of the army in 16th-century Poland -- Valentina Lepri ;
Marcantonio Gandino's Italian translation of Frontinus' Strategemata -- Maria Elena Severini -- 3. Literary representations of the military chief.
"Risistere alla furia de' cavagli e degli omini d'arme" : a lost book for a condottiere by Leonardo da Vinci -- Marco Versiero ;
The holy captain : military command and sacredness in the early-modern age -- Marco Faini ;
Goffredo and his army : the art of leadership in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata -- Teodoro Katinis ;
The heroisim of jests in Francesco Andreini's Le bravure del Capitano Spavento -- Vittorio Tranquilli -- 4.
Artistic representations of the military chief.
The image of the 'soldier prince' in Florence and Turin in the second half of the sixteenth century -- Ilario Manfredini.

Edition Notes

Papers presented at the conference 'Books for captains and captains in books : Italo-German conference on the training and image of the military leader during the Renaissance,' held at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Feb. 24-25, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions in English and German.

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Wiesbaden, Wolfenbüttel
Series
Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung -- Band 32, Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung -- Bd. 32.

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Library of Congress
PN56.G465 B66 2016, PN56.G465B66 2016

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191 pages
Number of pages
191

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Open Library
OL44432508M
ISBN 10
3447104899
ISBN 13
9783447104890
OCLC/WorldCat
949848988

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