DE SALAZAR, Diego.

by Diego De Salazar

£3,250 · Offered by Sokol Books

.Attractively bound second edition of this work taken from Machiavelli s Arte della Guerra by the Spanish solder and author Diego de Salazar. The early date of the first edition of this work (1536) makes it the first translation and adaptation into any language of a work by Machiavelli. De Salazar adds his own Spanish ideals and perspective as well as referencing Machiavelli s work. De Salazar analyses the essential characteristics of armies in the first half of the sixteenth century, as well as consistently referencing examples from antiquity. He addresses topics including combat, discipline, recruitment, and evaluates the characteristics of different weaponry. This is one of the first texts of its kind to be published by a Spanish author (Merino, Esther, Los autores espa‚àö¬±oles de los tratados De Re Military . Fuentes para su conocimiento: los Preliminares , 1994). Palau 341 states De Re Militari hecho a manera de dialogo que passo entre los Illustressimos Se‚àö¬±ores Don Gonçalo Fernandez de Cordova y Don Pedro Manrique de Lara En el qual se contienen muchos exemplos de grades Principes, y Senores, y excellentes avisos, y figuras de Guerra muy provechoso para Cavalleros, Capitanes, y Soldados. . .Machiavelli s Dell arte della Guerra, or the Art of War, takes the form of a Socratic dialogue. The essential purpose of the publication is to honour virtus , and to describe the ideal order of a military system. Macchiavelli describes the role of the military as the roof of a p

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