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De re militari
Roberto Valturio
Paola Delbianco
其他書名
umanesimo e arte della guerra tra Medioevo e Rinascimento
出版
Guaraldi
, 2006
主題
History / Military / General
Technology & Engineering / Military Science
ISBN
8880492799
9788880492795
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0WhOAgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
De re militari by Roberto Valturio, published in Verona in 1472, is the first printed technical treatise of the Quattrocento and the first book to be illustrated by an Italian artist in the history of Italian publishing. The treatise, originally written in Latin, was commissioned by Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta. It represents a complete educational programme for a prince, from physical education to the disciplines of philosophy, literature, and above all the military arts: tactics and strategies of war, of arms and machines, and the criteria of managing an army. It is an erudite and in-depth revisitation of the ancient treatises, infused with the new humanistic spirit, organized with expressive elegance and accompanied by a figurative apparatus which diffuses images until then known only to a very limited and chosen circle of those directly involved. The war machines are often unrealistic and unrealizable and do not reflect reality but aim to stimulate the research for new solutions to military problems which were of particular concern at that time. The fine facsimile reprint of the editio princeps conserved at the Biblioteca civica di Verona is accompanied by a volume of eight critical essays by scholars and experts introduced by an essay by the historian Franco Cardini on Sigismondo, his "intelligent" bombs and humanism and the art of war between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The DVD includes an unabridged copy of the editio princeps; an unabridged copy of the same edition conserved at the Biblioteca civica Gambalunga, Rimini, with watercolour plates; an unabridged copy of the first vernacular edition of 1483 with translation by Paolo Ramusio, also conserved at the Biblioteca civica di Verona; and finally an unabridged copy of the codex, Urb. Lat. 281 (1462), conserved at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
