ABSTRACT

First published in 2002. This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|38 pages

Knights and corsairs in the Mediterranean

chapter 3|50 pages

The Forty Years War, 1618–59

chapter 4|36 pages

The Venetian epic, 1600–1718

chapter 6|54 pages

Profiles and careers

chapter 7|28 pages

The Piedmontese exception

chapter 9|30 pages

The military imagination