Brill Books, People, and Military Thought: Machiavelli’s Art of War and the Fortune of the Militia in Sixteenth-Century Florence and Europe: 3 (Thinking in Extremes, 3)

Product Description Machiavellis experience in organizing a Florentine militia shaped the composition of his Art of War (1521), a book that is now less well known than The Prince, but that had a huge impact on sixteenth-century cultures of warfare. About the Author Andrea Guidi, Ph.D. (Florence, 2008), is Assegnista at the Università dellInsubria and Associate Member of the SFB 1015 Muße, Freiburg. Co-editor of both Machiavellis diplomatic and private correspondence, his archive-based monograph and articles on Machiavelli and the history of archives use long-overlooked documents.