The Art of War in Italy, 1494-1529 (Classic Reprint)

THE change from mediaeval to modern methods in the art of war is closely related to the general transformation of European civilization which goes by the name of the Renaissance. The revival of interest in ancient history and literature had a distinct effect on military theory and practice. The new spirit of inquiry and experiment applied itself vigorously to military problems. Moreover the avowed national separatism which replaced the sham imperialism of the Middle Ages accentuated the rivalry between states and produced wars which were more frequent, more prolonged, more general, and more intense than those of the preceding centuries. The history of these wars, waged in an age of eager intellectual activity, reveals, as we should expect it to reveal, rapid progress, amounting almost to revolution, in the use of arms, but what makes an examination of the subject singularly instructive is the fact that the most important of these campaigns were fought in Italy during the culminating ye

Table of Contents

I INTRODUCTIONI; II STRATEGY10; III INFANTRY29; IV CAVALRY61; V ARTILLERY81; VI TACTICS103; VII FORTIFICATION AND SIEGECRAFT 129; VIII MILITARY WRITERS156; APPENDIX A: THE BATTLE OF RAVENNA 180 NOTES TO APPENDIX A 205 APPENDIX B: BOOKS CONSULTED 216 INDEX225; MAPS; I Italy; II Plan of the walls of Verona; III The battlefield of Ravenna; IV Diagrams representing four phases of the; battle of Ravenna

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