1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910707746303321

Titolo

PestWise, Biopesticide Demonstration Grant Program : demonstrating and promoting biopesticide solutions

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticides Programs, , 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations

Soggetti

Biological pest control agents - Environmental aspects

Agricultural pests - Control - United States

Pests - Biological control - Subsidies - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"EPA 731-F-10-004."

"February 2010."

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958281103321

Autore

Caferro William

Titolo

John Hawkwood : an English mercenary in fourteenth-century Italy / / William Caferro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8018-8880-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Disciplina

355.3/54/092

B

Soggetti

Mercenary troops - Italy - History - To 1500

Soldiers of fortune - Great Britain

British - Italy - History - To 1500

Italy History 1268-1492 Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-447) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Preface -- Hawkwood Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 John Hawkwood in Perspective: The Man and the Myth -- PART I: MAKING OF A WARRIOR -- 2 Essex Lad, King's Soldier, and Member of the White Company, 1323-1363 -- 3 Italy and the Profession of Arms -- PART II: RISE OF A MERCENARY CAPTAIN -- 4 The Fox and the Lion: The Pisan-Florentine War, 1363-1364 -- 5 John Hawkwood of Pisa and Milan, 1365-1372 -- 6 In the Service of God and Mammon, 1372-1375 -- PART III: THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER CAPTAIN IN ITALY -- 7 John Hawkwood and the War of Eight Saints, 1375-1377 -- 8 Love and Diplomacy, 1377-1379 -- 9 At Home in the Romagna, 1379-1381 -- 10 Neapolitan Soldier and Tuscan Lord, 1381-1384 -- PART IV: VETERAN CAPTAIN AND FLORENTINE HERO -- 11 The Deal with the Devil, the Birth of a Son, and a Victory at Castagnaro, 1385-1387 -- 12 At the Center of the Storm: Florence and the Military Buildup, 1387-1389 -- 13 The War against Milan, 1390-1392 -- 14 Two Weddings, a Funeral, and a Disputed Legacy, 1392-1394-1412 -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Caferro has mined more than twenty archives in Britain and Italy, creating an authoritative portrait of Hawkwood as an extraordinary military leader, if not always an admirable human being.