This 1921 book examines changes in warfare between the medieval period and the renaissance and relates them to intellectual developments.

This book explores the military strategies and tactics employed in the wars that ravaged Italy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Drawing on primary sources and the latest scholarship in military history, F. L. Taylor provides a detailed and engaging account of the campaigns, battles, and personalities that shaped this tumultuous period in Italian history. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of warfare or medieval and Renaissance Italy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

2006 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition. First published in 1921, this work remains the most complete review in English of the military background to the Italian wars with Spain, France, and the Low Countries fought at this time, demonstrating their crucial importance in a formative period of European history. Separate chapters detail the elements of strategy, infantry, cavalry, artillery, tactics, and fortification and siege craft, how they were utilized, and their successes, failures, and development during the tine. Bibliography, index.

The birth of 'New War' in Italy It is easy to consider the Renaissance as a time of enlightenment typified principally by the artistic and scientific genius of Leonardo da Vinci and his peers; but giant leaps forward are never confined to one aspect of society and the application of new ideas is always adapted to various purposes and the meeting of differing objectives. The creation of modern political science by Niccolo Machiavelli is a prime example of how new ways of thinking and doing impacted on the advancement and securing of power. These changes were inevitably accompanied by significant developments in making war more effectively, strategically and tactically-with corresponding advances in weaponry and other equipage. This excellent book considers these developments through the changes to traditional military strategy and the use of infantry, cavalry and artillery, in both open battle and fortification and siege-craft, at the turn of the sixteenth century. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

Excerpt from The Art of War in Italy, 1494-1529 Intensive cultivation 'oi the art of war was the mili tary science of the modern world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.