Wars and Soldiers in the Early Reign of Louis XIV: Volume 6 - Armies of the Italian States 1660-1690, Part 1

by Bruno Mugnai

It was a commonplace that Italy offers little of interest to military historians after the full flower of the Renaissance, and that it had been deservedly forgotten. Italian Risorgimento desperately wanted to repudiate the values of the previous centuries. In place of a politically fragmented and militarily weak collection of small states, in the thrall of Counter-Reformation Catholicism, the 19th century historians dreamed of a united, secular, industrial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915113571
• ISBN13: 9781915113573
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 340 Pages