Books for captains and captains in books
Subtitle: shaping the perfect military commander in Early Modern Europe
By: edited by Marco Faini and Maria Elena Severini
Contributors: Herzog August Bibliothek
Series: Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung -- Band 32; Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung -- Bd. 32.
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag; Herzog August Bibliothek
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Wiesbaden; Wolfenbüttel
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9783447104890
Subjects: Generals in literature; Congresses; History; Armed Forces; Officers; In literature; Military art and science in literature; Military art and science; European literature; History and criticism
Notes: Papers presented at the conference 'Books for captains and captains in books : Italo-German conference on the training and image of the military leader during the Renaissance,' held at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Feb. 24-25, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions in English and German.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Comparison of ancient and modern models : the classical sources and their uses.; title: Virtus under fire : Renaissance leaders in a deadlier battlefield  -- Gastone Breccia ;; title: "Armirte Wachsamkeit und militarische Verfassung" : Johann Nicolaus Flämizers Politico-militarischer Staats-Minister Oder vielmehr: Prudentia politico-militaris von 1688  -- Wolfgang E.J. Weber -- 2.; title: The library of the army commander : treatises, historiography and technical manuals.; title: Military strategies versus "Humanae litterae" : the rules of Domenico Mora, chief of the army in 16th-century Poland  -- Valentina Lepri ;; title: Marcantonio Gandino's Italian translation of Frontinus' Strategemata  -- Maria Elena Severini -- 3. Literary representations of the military chief.; title: "Risistere alla furia de' cavagli e degli omini d'arme" : a lost book for a condottiere by Leonardo da Vinci  -- Marco Versiero ;; title: The holy captain : military command and sacredness in the early-modern age  -- Marco Faini ;; title: Goffredo and his army : the art of leadership in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata  -- Teodoro Katinis ;; title: The heroisim of jests in Francesco Andreini's Le bravure del Capitano Spavento  -- Vittorio Tranquilli -- 4.; title: Artistic representations of the military chief.; title: The image of the 'soldier prince' in Florence and Turin in the second half of the sixteenth century -- Ilario Manfredini.