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In 4°, 204 x 148 mm., 4 blank pages, 202 handwritten pages with clear cursive handwriting, probably a first part, contemporary "envelope" binding in parchment with reuse of a Jewish parchment, traces of bindings. The book is dated to the early seventeenth century since among the titles listed for Prince Carlo Filiberto there is one that he assumed in 1616 and the handwriting and the watermark of the paper confirm this hypothesis.
The book deals with the rules for maneuvering large masses of men on the field: pikemen, arquebusiers and musketeers, arranged in squares, which were the basis of the infantry's attack and defense in the Flanders Wars and typical of the Thirty Years' War.
The book deals with the rules for maneuvering large masses of men on the field: pikemen, arquebusiers and musketeers, arranged in squares, which were the basis of the infantry's attack and defense in the Flanders Wars and typical of the Thirty Years' War.
Specialist Notes
Intriguing manuscript of military tactics from the early seventeenth century , extremely precise and detailed. Ippolito Cavallerini came from a family of the lower nobility of Modena, partly transplanted to Rome, a family that was made illustrious above all by Cardinal Giovanni Giacomo Cavallerini (1639-1699).
"In this work you will see how you can learn to do the square root, whoever knows how to count, not knowing how to do the square root will have difficulty in making perfect squadrons of every kind. And you will find in said work, how to put in order a company of two hundred and thirty infantry, how to march, to enter the guard in two ways; and you make a square squadron of general, with a company of two hundred and forty infantry. And you will find how to make the following squadrons, with their rules, and tests (...)".
"In this work you will see how you can learn to do the square root, whoever knows how to count, not knowing how to do the square root will have difficulty in making perfect squadrons of every kind. And you will find in said work, how to put in order a company of two hundred and thirty infantry, how to march, to enter the guard in two ways; and you make a square squadron of general, with a company of two hundred and forty infantry. And you will find how to make the following squadrons, with their rules, and tests (...)".
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