Maurizio Arfaioli
Autor(a) de The Black Bands of Giovanni. Infantry and diplomacy during the Italian wars, (1526-1528)
Obras de Maurizio Arfaioli
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Conhecimento Comum
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- Obras
- 1
- Membros
- 4
- Popularidade
- #1,536,815
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- 1
- ISBNs
- 1
Unfortunately, due to the nature of the sources, we don't learn too much about the day-to-day lives of the individual soldiers; instead the narrative shifts between a general account of the progress of the invasion and one of the Bands' officers' always complicated relationship with their Florentine paymasters.
The book is Arfaioli's doctoral thesis, and decidedly academic. I would not characterize it as 'dry' however - Arfaioli is a decent writer and enlivens the story with many colourful quotations from the correspondence of various of the principals. An annoyance is his habit of refering to the same person with different names or titles: one better remembers that Philibert de Châlons is the same as the prince of Orange, or that Cristianissimo was an appellation of the French king.… (mais)