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Books, people, and military thought : Machiavelli's Art of War and the fortune of the militia in sixteenth-century Florence and Europe / / by Andrea Guidi



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Autore: Guidi Andrea Visualizza persona
Titolo: Books, people, and military thought : Machiavelli's Art of War and the fortune of the militia in sixteenth-century Florence and Europe / / by Andrea Guidi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2020]
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Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
Disciplina: 355.009031
Soggetto topico: Military art and science - History - 16th century
Soggetto geografico: Europe History, Military 1492-1648
Florence (Italy) History, Military
Sommario/riassunto: 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 Via an examination of little-known and unpublished sources, this book provides a comparative exploration of two Florentine republican experiments with a peasant militia: one promoted and created by Niccolò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.
Titolo autorizzato: Books, people, and military thought  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 90-04-43200-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814937003321
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Serie: Thinking in Extremes ; ; 3.