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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... battles« like Fornovo, Ravenna, Marignano and Pavia, and ofgreat sieges like those of Rome, Naplesand Siena. If Italywasa battlefield for mercenaries hailing fromAndalusia toSwitzerland, neverthelessItalian knights, mercenaries ...
... battles« like Fornovo, Ravenna, Marignano and Pavia, and ofgreat sieges like those of Rome, Naplesand Siena. If Italywasa battlefield for mercenaries hailing fromAndalusia toSwitzerland, neverthelessItalian knights, mercenaries ...
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... battle. 7 These warlords hadwaxed fatby prolonging limited warsthat madethem bothrich and indispensable. Historians ofthis century, from Frederick Taylorand Piero Pierito Michael Mallettconcur, describing the art ofwar of the ...
... battle. 7 These warlords hadwaxed fatby prolonging limited warsthat madethem bothrich and indispensable. Historians ofthis century, from Frederick Taylorand Piero Pierito Michael Mallettconcur, describing the art ofwar of the ...
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... battle. They included nobleshailing fromregionsunder thesovereignty of Italian states,that is, Savoyards and Dalmatians, and some cosmopolitan aristocrats living outsideItaly, of whomPrince Eugeneof Savoy is themost brilliant example ...
... battle. They included nobleshailing fromregionsunder thesovereignty of Italian states,that is, Savoyards and Dalmatians, and some cosmopolitan aristocrats living outsideItaly, of whomPrince Eugeneof Savoy is themost brilliant example ...
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... battles. The evolution towards the galeass inaugurateda new perioddefined by theimportance of ship-borne artillery. The nextstage was the appearance after 1590 of the improved NorthSea roundship, thebertone, asthe Italians called it. A ...
... battles. The evolution towards the galeass inaugurateda new perioddefined by theimportance of ship-borne artillery. The nextstage was the appearance after 1590 of the improved NorthSea roundship, thebertone, asthe Italians called it. A ...
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... battle ofPrevesain 1538,limited Spain«s chancesto reduce these pirate bases.Spanish expeditions against them werenevertheless largely Italian affairs, conceived and directed from Italy, with Messina being the ideal port for assembling ...
... battle ofPrevesain 1538,limited Spain«s chancesto reduce these pirate bases.Spanish expeditions against them werenevertheless largely Italian affairs, conceived and directed from Italy, with Messina being the ideal port for assembling ...
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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