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In 4°, 204 x 148 mm, 4 blank pages, 202 manuscript pages in clear cursive script, probably a first part, contemporary "envelope" binding in parchment reused from a Hebrew parchment, traces of bindings. The book dates from the early 17th century as among the titles listed for Prince Carlo Filiberto is one he assumed in 1616, and the handwriting and watermark on the paper support this hypothesis.
The book deals with the rules for maneuvering large masses of men on the field: pikemen, arquebusiers and musketeers, arranged in square, 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 square, which were the basis of the infantry's attack and defense in the Flanders Wars and typical of the Thirty Years' War.
Specialist Notes
An 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 made illustrious above all by Cardinal Giovanni Giacomo Cavallerini (1639-1699).
"In this work you will see how one can learn to calculate the square root. He who knows how to count, without knowing how to calculate the square root, will have difficulty in making perfect squadrons of every kind. And you will find in the said work how to put a company of two hundred and thirty infantrymen into order, how to march, to enter on guard in two ways; and how to make a square squadron of generals, with a company of two hundred and forty infantrymen. And you will find how to make the following squadrons, with their rules and tests (...)".
"In this work you will see how one can learn to calculate the square root. He who knows how to count, without knowing how to calculate the square root, will have difficulty in making perfect squadrons of every kind. And you will find in the said work how to put a company of two hundred and thirty infantrymen into order, how to march, to enter on guard in two ways; and how to make a square squadron of generals, with a company of two hundred and forty infantrymen. And you will find how to make the following squadrons, with their rules and tests (...)".
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