Pietro Monte’s <I>Collectanea</I> [PDF ebook] 
The Arms, Armour and Fighting Techniques of a Fifteenth-Century Soldier

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Pietro Monte’s
Collectanea is a wide-ranging treatise on the arts of knighthood, focusing on martial arts, athletics, arms and armour, and military practice, but touching on subjects as diverse as diet, zoology and the design of life preservers. Monte, a courtier, soldier and scholar who won the respect of men like Leonardo da Vinci and Baldesar Castiglione, wrote the work in Spanish in the late 1400s, and later produced an expanded Latin translation. The Latin version, published in Milan in 1509, forms the basis of this translation.
Monte describes the techniques of personal combat with various weapons, including the two-handed and one-handed sword, pollaxe, and dagger, as well as wrestling, armored and mounted combat. He also documents the athletic activities used by knights to hone their physical abilities: running, jumping, throwing, and vaulting. Finally, the
Collectanea is the solemedieval text to provide extensive discussion of the design of arms and armour.
This translation includes an illustrated introduction to Monte and his technical subject-matter, as well as a translation of Book 5 of Monte’s
De Dignoscendis Hominibus (1492), which overlaps much of the technical content of the
Collectanea.
JEFFREY L. FORGENG is curator of Arms and Armour and Medieval Art at the Worcester Art Museum, and teaches as Adjunct Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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Introduction
Pietro Monte’s
Collectanea, Books One to Three
Appendix A: Monte,
The Appraisal of Men, Book 5
Appendix B: Structure of the
Collectanea and
Appraisal 5
Glossary
Bibliography

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Taal Engels ● Formaat PDF ● Pagina’s 333 ● ISBN 9781787441859 ● Bestandsgrootte 25.1 MB ● Vertaler Jeffrey L. Forgeng ● Uitgeverij Boydell & Brewer ● Stad Woodbridge ● Land GB ● Gepubliceerd 2018 ● Editie 1 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6959066 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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