02251nam 2200457 450 991079409060332120230124200011.090-04-43200-010.1163/9789004432000(CKB)4100000010566053(OCoLC)1143654263(nllekb)BRILL9789004432000(MiAaPQ)EBC6419889(EXLCZ)99410000001056605320210321d2020 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediardacarrierBooks, people, and military thought Machiavelli's Art of War and the fortune of the militia in sixteenth-century Florence and Europe /by Andrea GuidiLeiden, The Netherlands ;Boston :Brill,[2020]©20201 online resourceThinking in Extremes ;390-04-43209-4 How did the evolution of new gunpowder weapons change the nature, structure and composition of the Florentine militias during the first decades of the sixteenth century? Via an examination of little-known and unpublished sources, this book provides a comparative exploration of two Florentine republican experiments with a peasant militia: one promoted and created by Niccolò Machiavelli (1506-12) and a later one (1527-30). Using this comparison as the basis for a new reading of Machiavelli’s Art of War (which drew on the author's experience with the militia), the book then investigates the relationship between the circulation and reception of Machiavelli’s influential work, changing conceptions of militia, and the formation of new cultures of warfare in Europe in the sixteenth century.Thinking in Extremes ;3.Military art and scienceHistory16th centuryEuropeHistory, Military1492-1648Florence (Italy)History, MilitaryMilitary art and scienceHistory355.009031Guidi Andrea62847MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910794090603321Books, people, and military thought3863431UNINA