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De re militari. Italy, 14th century

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De re militari. Italy, 14th century

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Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Manuscript on paper.
Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺].
Humanistic script.
Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepia drawings colored in part.
Leaves [106]-[107] and a few leaves at end wanting.
Leaf [Ia]: ELENCHVS ET INDEX RER[um] militarium; leaf [4a]: Ad MAGNANIMVM ET ILLVSTREM HEROA SIGISMVNDVM PANDVLFVM MALATESTAM ... ROBERTI VALTVRRII REI MILITARIS VOLVMINVM PREFATIO; leaf [181b]: (book 12, last chapter): plurima denq[ue] sacror[um] ethnicor[um]q[ue] libror[um] ac oium optimar[um] atrium ...
Early inscription on leaf [Ia]: Fris Antonini Lopij Politiani; on same leaf, old classification mark: V.H. 7.; coat of arms on leaf [4a], representing a white tower on a blue shield with the letter R on the left (Valturio's device?).
Radakiewicz, T. The editio princeps of R. Valturio's De re militari (In Maso Finiguerra, 18-19 (1940), p. 15-82).
Rosenwald 6
Ricci, S. de. Census v. 2, p. 1848, no. 12
Input from Rosenwald catalog; td12 2011-09-28

Roberto Valturio (1405–1475) was an Italian engineer and writer born in Rimini. He was the author of the military treatise De Re militari (1472). The work consists of a preface, with a dedication to Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta; a list of the classical works mentioned and an introduction on the history of warfare. The work was widely known: the French King Louis XI of France, the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, the Duke of Urbino Federico da Montefeltro and the ruler of Florence Lorenzo de 'Medici had a copy of the printed book.

Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.

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01/01/1400
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Valturio, Roberto, 1405-1475.
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