The Twilight Of A Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800Routledge, 2008 M02 22 - 384 pages First published in 2002. This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe. |
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... Condottieri, capitanie tribuni, 3 vols(Rome: 1936); Luigi Maggiorotti, L'opera del genio italianoall' estero, 3 vols(Rome 1933¥9). Aldo Valori, Condottierie generalidel Seicento (Rome: 1946)) Map 6.2Origin ofnorth Italian officers, 1560 ...
... Condottieri, capitanie tribuni, 3 vols(Rome: 1936); Luigi Maggiorotti, L'opera del genio italianoall' estero, 3 vols(Rome 1933¥9). Aldo Valori, Condottierie generalidel Seicento (Rome: 1946)) Map 6.2Origin ofnorth Italian officers, 1560 ...
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... condottieri campaigns still holds sway among the literati.In the viewof that remarkable historian, Italians were content for many years withthe imagesof war, but not itssubstance, and at the critical moment they lackedthe resolveto ...
... condottieri campaigns still holds sway among the literati.In the viewof that remarkable historian, Italians were content for many years withthe imagesof war, but not itssubstance, and at the critical moment they lackedthe resolveto ...
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... condottieri. They preferred bloodless manoeuvring inchess-like fashion,to the bloody chaosand risk ofa pitched battle. 7 These warlords hadwaxed fatby prolonging limited warsthat madethem bothrich and indispensable. Historians ofthis ...
... condottieri. They preferred bloodless manoeuvring inchess-like fashion,to the bloody chaosand risk ofa pitched battle. 7 These warlords hadwaxed fatby prolonging limited warsthat madethem bothrich and indispensable. Historians ofthis ...
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... Condottieri italiani in Germania (published in 1941!) imparts a good impression of thetoneoftheir work.12 Thebiographical encyclopedia projects gave perfect scope for thisrevival; the regime neededa catalogueofheroes in every agewho ...
... Condottieri italiani in Germania (published in 1941!) imparts a good impression of thetoneoftheir work.12 Thebiographical encyclopedia projects gave perfect scope for thisrevival; the regime neededa catalogueofheroes in every agewho ...
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... condottieri, Michael Mallett,who writesthat. ŪDefensive. and unduly complex tactics were weaknesses of Italian warfare, andthe Italianwars would prove over and over again that a new concept of warfare was emerging, with the desire toseek ...
... condottieri, Michael Mallett,who writesthat. ŪDefensive. and unduly complex tactics were weaknesses of Italian warfare, andthe Italianwars would prove over and over again that a new concept of warfare was emerging, with the desire toseek ...
Contents
The Forty Years War 1618c59 | |
The Venetian epic 1600c1718 | |
The Spanish | |
Austrian horizons expanding 6Profiles and careers | |
The Piedmontese exception The developmentof the Piedmontese military state | |
TheGreat Powers andItalian demilitarization 1700c1814 | |
Themilitary imagination | |
Index | |
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