Screen LibraryItaly and the European powers : the impact of war, 1500-1530 /
"This is an examination of the impact of the crucial central phase of the Italian Wars on the society, politics and culture of Italy, and how the experience of these campaigns and their consequences affected the combatants and the way they saw Italy and the Italians. The essays cover a broad ra...
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| Published: |
Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
History of warfare,
volume 38 |
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| Summary: |
"This is an examination of the impact of the crucial central phase of the Italian Wars on the society, politics and culture of Italy, and how the experience of these campaigns and their consequences affected the combatants and the way they saw Italy and the Italians. The essays cover a broad range of subjects from fortifications and military organization to civic and royal ritual, music and musicians to universities, political society and diplomacy to the history of ideas."--Jacket. |
| Item Description: | "Most of the essays in this volume were among those given at a conference sponsored by the AHRB Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures in the Centre for the Study of Renaissance in the University of Warwick." |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004151635 900415163X |
| Index Number: | DG483 |
| CLC: |
E509 K546.33 |
| Call Number: | K546.33/I887 |
| Contents: |
The transformation of war, 1494-1530 / Hommes de guerre et Gens de finance : the inquest on the French defeat in Naples 1503-4 / The face of the siege : fortification, tactics and strategy in the early Italian wars / Loreto, Leo X and the fortifications on the Adriatic coast against the infidel / The ending of the Duchy of Camerino / Political allegiances and political structures in the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini / The papacy and the European powers |