Books for Captains and Captains in Books: shaping the perfect military commander in Early Modern Europe
Object category:
Druckschrift
Publisher:
Harrassowitz Verlag in Kommission
Ort:
Wiesbaden
Date:
2016
Language:
Englisch
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Object text:
edited by Marco Faini and Maria Elena Severini
Auf dem hinteren Buchdeckel: "This volume collects the 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 from 24th to 25th February, 2014"
Beiträge teilweise in deutsch, teilweise in englisch
Auf dem hinteren Buchdeckel: "This volume collects the 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 from 24th to 25th February, 2014"
Beiträge teilweise in deutsch, teilweise in englisch
Inhalt:
1. Comparison of ancient and modern models : the classical sources and their uses. Virtus under fire : Renaissance leaders in a deadlier battlefield; 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; 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; 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
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2023-04-18
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