The Italian Wars 1494-1559: War, State and Society in Early Modern Europe (Modern Wars In Perspective)
'Not just Italy but large swathes of Europe were drawn into the Italian Wars of the early sixteenth century. A great hole in the historical literature has at last been filled by this lucid and authoritative account of these events by two leading scholars in Renaissance history.'David Abulafia, University of Cambridge, UK 'Italy is the neglected crucible of early modern European warfare, and this important book examines in detail both the conflicts which kept Italy a battleground through the first half of the sixteenth century, and the wider significance of the military developments which sprang from these Italian Wars.'David Parrott, University of Oxford, UK