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Sixteenth-Century Military Treatises, 1449-1598

1449
Mariano, Jacopo, called il Taccola, 1381-1458?.  De Machinis, the engineering treatise of 1449.  2 vols.    (Facsimile of Codex Latinus Monacensis 28 800 in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich; with additional reproductions from Codex Latinus 7239 ...)  N.p., 1971.
ICN, 6A 898 (N.p. 1971).
Comments:  At head of title:  Mariano Taccola.  Contents:  Vol. 1. Introduction, notes and texts.  Vol. 2. Facsimiles.

1475
Modestus, c. A.D. 200-300.  Modestus de re militari.  Pomponius Laetus de magistratibus urbis et sacerdotiis et de legibus.  [Rome, Johann Schurener?, ca. 1475.]
ICN, Inc. 3489 ([Rome, ca. 1475]); IU, RBC xq871 F7s 1495 case (With Vegetius, Frontinus and Aelianus, Bologna, 1495-96); ICJ (Bologna, 1495-96); ICN, Case Y 679 .8 (With Vegetius, Frontinus and Aelianus, [Bologna, 1505]); ICU (With Vegetius, Frontinus and Aelianus, Bologna, 1505); MiU (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Vegetius, [Cologne, 1524]); InU, Lilly U 101 .V4 1532 (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Vegetius, Cologne, 1532); InU, Lilly U 101 .V4 1585 (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Vegetius, Antwerp, 1585); InU (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Vegetius, Lyons, 1592); WU (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Vegetius, Lyons, 1592); OClW (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Vegetius, Lyons, 1592); IEN (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Vegetius, Lyons, 1592); ICN, Wing ZP 5465 .P 705 (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Vegetius, Lyons, 1592).
Comments:  The Rome 1475 edition at ICN has the bookplate of Augustus Frederick, duke of Sussex.  The title De vocabulis rei militaris ... by “Modestus” is actually a forgery by Pomponius Laetus, or one of his pupils, based upon Vegetius.  Nevertheless, the Libellus De vocabulis rei militaris [the full title] is “a short, but valuable vocabulary of terms used in the drilling and manoeuvering of the phalanx.”  Cockle.

1483
Thucydides, 471?-400? B.C.  Historia belli Pelopennesiaci.  [Treviso, Johannes (Rubeus) Vercellensis, 1483?]
IU, xq881 T6 .Lv 1483 ([Treviso, 1483?]).
Comments:  The Treviso 1483? edition was translated from Greek to Latin by the humanist scholar Laurentius Valla.  Numerous other editions are available at every major research library in the Midwest.

Valturio, Roberto, 15th cent.  De re militari.  Verona, Boninus, 1483.
ICN, Inc. f 6921 (Verona, 1483); OU, RBC U101* V3 1532 (Paris, 1532); MiU (Paris, 1532); ICN, Wing fZP 539 .W 41 (Paris, 1535);  French edition:  ICN, Wing fZP 539 .P 41 (Paris, 1555).

1488
Vegetius, Renatus Flavius, 4th cent.  De re militari.  Pescia, Sigismundus Rodt, 1488.
ICN, Inc. 7317 A (Pescia, 1488); ICN, Inc. 3878 (From Scriptores rei militari, Rome, Eucharius Silber, 1494); ICN, Case Y 679 .94 (With Frontinus and Aelianus, Paris, 1515); MiU (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Modestus, [Cologne, 1524]); InU, Lilly U 101 .V4 1532 (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Modestus, Cologne, 1532); ICN, Wing ZP 539 .W 41 (With Frontinus and Aelianus, Paris, 1535); InU, Lilly U 101 .V4 1585 (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Modestus, Antwerp, 1585); InU (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Modestus, Lyons, 1592); WU (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Modestus, Lyons, 1592); OClW (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Modestus, Lyons, 1592); IEN (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Modestus, Lyons, 1592); ICN, Wing ZP 5465 .P 705 (With Frontinus, Aelianus and Modestus, Lyons, 1592); MiU (Antwerp, 1606); MiU (With Polybius, Hyginus and Cato, [Antwerp], 1607); German edition:  ICN, Case *Y 672 .V 623 ([N.p., 1511]); MiU (Augsburg, 1529); Italian editions: ICN, Case Y 672 .V 626 (Venice, 1525); InU, Lilly U 101 .V4 F39 1551 (Venice, 1551); ICN, Case Y 672 .V 627 (Vinegra, 1551); English edtion:  ICN, Case Y 672 .V 61 (London, 1572).
Comments:  The five books of Vegetius are divided as follows:  Bk. I. On the levying and training of recruits.  Bk. II.  On the legion, its organization, rank of officers and men, and their arms.  Bk. III.  On tactics; and the thirty-two maxims of war.  Bk. IV. On fortification and the attack and defence of places; and on machines of war.  Bk. V. On the navy.  Both the 1511 and 1529 German editions are entitled Vier buches der rytterschaft ... Italian 1525 edition is entitled De la arte militare ...  Italian 1551 edition is entitled Vegetio dell’arte della guerra.  The 1572 English edition is entitled The foure bookes of Flavius Vegetius Renatus, brieflye contyninge a plaine forme and perfect knowledge of martiall policye, feates of chivalrie and whatsoever pertayneth to warre.  The Cologne 1532 edition has an introductory note by Gottfried Hittorp and is also bound with, subsequent to publication, Taciti, Cornelii, Germania, Wittenberg, Luft, 1557.  The 1592 Lyon edition and the 1606 Antwerp edition are edited by Godescalcus Stewechius.  The 1607 Antwerp edition is edited by Petro Scriverii.

1493
Cornazzano, Antonio.  Opera bellissima de la arte militar.  Venice, Christophorus de Pensis for Piero Benalio, 1493.
MiU (Venice, 1493).

1494
Onosander, c. 1st century A.D.  De optimo imperatore.  (From Scriptores rei militares).  Rome, E. Silbur, 1494.
MiU (With Vegetius, Frontinus and Aelianus, Rome, 1494); ICN (With Vegetius, Frontinus and Aelianus Rome, 1494); InU, Lilly PA 6139 .M5 S8 (With Vegetius, Frontinus and Aelianus, Rome, 1494); ICN, Case U 0 .645 (With Caesar and Forquevaux, Barcelona, 1566); ICN, Wing ZP 547 .C 73 (Heidelberg, 1600); ICN, Case 4A 1507 (Rome, 1610).
Comments:  Onosander’s tract De optimo imperatore is on the office of the general.  The Rome 1494 edition has a colophon to Vegetius dated 24 Oct., a colophon to Frontinus 3 Nov., other pieces without dated colophons; Vegetius and Frontinus may have also been sold separately.  The Barcelona 1566 edition was translated from the Greek by Diego Gracian.  Diego Gracian also translated Forquevaux’s work from the French to Catillian.  Colophon dated 1565.

1495
Aelianus, Tacticus, c. A.D. 100, Frontinus, Sextus Julius, c. A.D. 40-103.  De re militari, sive Strategematicon.  Bologna, Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 10 July 1495-17 Jan. 1496.
IU, RBC xq871 F7s 1495 case (With Vegetius, Frontinus and Modestus, Bologna, 1495-96); ICJ (Bologna, 1495-96); ICN, Case Y 679 .8 (With Vegetius, Frontinus and Modestus, [Bologna, 1505]); ICU (With Vegetius, Frontinus and Modestus, Bologna, 1505); ICN, Case Y 642 .A 1608 (Venice, 1552); MiU (With Leo, Imperator, 866-912, Leiden, 1613); MnU (With Leo, Imperator, 866-912, Leiden, 1613); Italian edition:  IU, RBC 881 A16 .If 1551 (Venice, 1551); English editions: ICN, Case fY 642 .A 161 (London, 1616); MiU (London, 1616); MnU (London, 1616); IU, RBC Film UM Reel 607, [also] Brown 14 n 41 Gen. Res. (London, 1616); IU, RBC Film Um R1591 no. 7 (London, 1631).
Comments:  The contribution by Aelianus was entitled De instruendis aciebus.  It is a tract frequently found in a collection known as Scriptores rei militaris, including tracts by Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Frontinus and Modestus.  These tracts are found in various arrangements and in the National Union Catalogue are entered under the author of the tract bound first, or the editor.  Aelianus “treats of the organisation, drilling , arming, and battle formations of the phalanx; the position of cavalry in the field, their number, officers, etc.,; of chariots and elephants; of various battle formations both of horse and foot; of changing front, wheeling, countermarching, etc., etc.” Cockle. The Bologna 1495-96 edition includes woodcuts.  The Bologna 1505 edition is bound with other tracts under the title:  Scriptore[s] rei militaris.  Francesco Robortello, 1516-1567 was the editor of the Venice 1552 edition.  The 1613 Leiden edition has Greek and Latin in parallel columns.  The 1551 Italian edition is entitled Eliano Del modo di mettere in ordinanza.  The translator was Francesco Ferrosi.  The title of the 1616 [and 1631 English edition] is The tactiks; or, Art of embattailing an army after ye Grecian manner.  Englished & illustrated with figures throughout:  & notes upon ye chapters of ye ordinary motions of ye phalange by John Bingham.  The exercise military of ye English by ye order of Generall Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange is added.  This edition includes Maurice’s system (derived from Aelianus) and has a dedication from John Bingham to Prince Charles signed:  From my garrison at Woudrichem in Holland the 20 of September 1616 ...  Jo[hn] Bingham.

Frontinus, Sextus Julius, c. A.D. 40-103.  Sextus Julius Frontinus vir consularis, De re militari.  Flavius Vegetius vir illustris, De re militari.  Aelianus, De instruendis aciebus.  Modesti, Libellus de vocabulis rei militaris.  Bologna, Plato de Benedictis, 1495-96.
IU, RBC xq871 F7s 1495 case (With Vegetius, Aelianus and Modestus, Bologna 1495-96); ICJ (Bologna, 1495-96); ICN, Case Y 679 .8 (With Vegetius, Aelianus and Modestus, [Bologna, 1505]); ICU (With Vegetius, Aelianus and Modestus, Bologna, 1505); IU 871 F7s Id (Venice, 1537); IMunS (Venice, 1537); ICN, Case *Y 672 F 73 (Venice, 1541); InU, Lilly PA 6389 .F4 I 8 1541 (Venice, 1541); IU (Venice, 1543); MnU (Venice, 1543); ICN, Case Y 642 .A 1608 (Venice, 1552); Italian edition:  ICN, Case U 2 .317 (Venice, 1574); German edition: ICN, Case F 474 .396 (Frankfurt, 1578).
Comments:  Frontinus’ work, the Stratagems, is actually a collection of clever anecdotes from the great captains of the ancient world.  1537, 1541 and 1543 editions entitled Astutie militari ... di tutti li famosi et eccellenti capitani romani, greci, barbari et hesterni.  1574 Italian edition entitled Stratagemi militari ...  translated by Giulio Frontino.  German edition entitled Kriegspractica, das ist:  Artliche und geschwinde Griff der furnembsten ...  Krieg und Schlachten, so die Römer jederzeit mit iren Feinden gehalten ...  Neben Erzehlung der Keyserlichen Kriegs Recht und Ordnung, wie es füglich anzugreiffen und zu halten sey.  German edition is bound with Henricpetri, Adam, General Historien ... [1577].

1498
Polybius, 205?-125? B.C.  De primo bello Punico.  [Latin adaptation by Leonardus Aretinus Brunus]  Plutarchi Parallela minora.  [Translated by Guarinus Veronensis.]  Brescia, Jacobus Britannicus, 24 Oct 1498.
ICN (Rome, 1473); IU, RBC xq881 P7 .Lb 1498 (Brescia, 1498); InU, Lilly PA 4392 P94 B89 1498 (Brescia, 1498); ICN (Brescia, 1498); IU (Venice, 1498); ICN (Paris, 1512); ICN (Basel, 1549); IaU (Basel, 1549); IU (Basel, 1549); ICU (Lyons, 1554); IU (Lyons, 1554); ICN, Case Y 642 .P 712 (Basel, 1557); ICU PA 4391 .A2 C33 1610 (Frankfurt, 1610); French editions:  ICN (Lyons, 1558); MnU (Lyons, 1558); IU (Paris, 1727-30); MnU (Paris, 1727-30); ICarbS (Amsterdam, 1753); IU (Amsterdam, 1774); English editions:  IU xq881 P7 .Eh 1756 (London, 1756-72); OCU (London, 1756-72); ICN (London, 1756-72); OKentU (London, 1766); IU (London, 1772-73); OO (London, 1777); German edition:  ICN Y 642 .P 7189 (Vienna, 1759-60)
Comments:  Numerous other editions available at every major research library in the Midwest.  The 1558 French edition also includes “le dessein du camp des rommeins extrait de la descripcion de Polybe ...”

15--
Rovere, Francesco Maria della, duke of Urbino, 1490-1538.  I discorsi de Francesco Maria Io delle Rovere duca d’Urbino sopra le fortificazioni di Venezia.  Mantova, Prem. tip. degli operai, 1902.
ICN 4A 3107 (Mantova, 1902).
Comments:  At head of title:  Elisa Viani.

Kirchof, Hans Wilhelm, 16th cent.  Militaris disciplina.  Stuttgart, A. Hiersemann, 1976.
ICN, oUB 795 .G 46 K (Stuttgart, 1976).

Rovere, Francesco Maria della, duke of Urbino, 1490-1538.  I discorsi de Francesco Maria Io delle Rovere duca d’Urbino sopra le fortificazioni di Venezia.  Mantova, Prem. tip. degli operai, 1902.
ICN 4A 3107 (Mantova, 1902).
Comments:  At head of title:  Elisa Viani.

1503
Caesar, Gaius Julius, 100-44 B.C.  Commentariorum de bello Gallico.  Venice, 1503.
InU (Venice, 1503); ICN, Inc. 4074(+) (Venice, 1471); IU, RBC xq871 C2 1490 (Venice, 1490); MiU Z 232 E82 1544a (Paris, 1544); IEN (Venice, 1569); IU 871 C2 1716 (London, 1716); InU (Nuremberg. 1758).
Comments:  Numerous early modern editions and many more recent editions available at every major research library in the Midwest.

1511
Surget, Jean.  Johannis Surgeti natione galli suessionem dioces, in legibus licentiati:  Militaris discipline enchridion in quo varie juris Materie et peregrine questions continentum Cuius finis est paces perusasio inter principes xpianos belli exhortatio in Sara cenos et infideles hostes religionis catholic.  Paris, ab Joanne Paruo[t], [1511 or 1512?].
ICN (Paris, [1511]); ICN, Wing ZP 539 .P43 (Paris, 1512).

1532
Busteter, Hans, 16th cent.  Ernstlicher Bericht, wie sich ain frume Oberkayt vor, in, und nach den gefärlichsten Kriegssnöten, mit Kluge Vortayl, zy ungezweyfletem Sig, loblichen uben, un halten sol ...  Augsburg, H. Stayner, 1532.
ICN, Case U 0 .134 (Augsburg, 1532).

1534
Patrici (or Patrizi), Francesco, 1413-1494.  ... De institutuone reipub. libri novem.  Historiarum sentiarumque varietate refertissimi, cu annotationibus margineis, indiceque vocabulorum, factorum, dictorumque memorabilium copiosissimo, literarum serie phyluratom digesto.  Paris, Apud Gialliotum Pratensem, 1534 [1535].
ICN (Paris, 1534 [1535]); MiU (Paris, 1575); ICU, JC 121 .P29 Rarebk (Paris, 1585); ICN, Case J15 .53522 (Strasbourg, 1594); ICU, JC 121 .P3 Rarebk room (Strasbourg, 1608); Italian edition:  ICU, JC 143 .P306 1547 (Rare) (Venice, 1547).

1537
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.  Libro de la arte della guerra.  Venice, 1537.
MiU (Venice, 1537); ICN, Case *Y 672 .F 73 (Venice, 1540); MiU (Venice, 1540); ICN, Case 3A 391 ([London],1587); ICN U 2 .5364 ([Leghorn, 1936]); French edition: ICN, U 0 .537 (Amsterdam, 1693); English editions:  ICN, Case U 2 .537 (London, 1573); ICN, Case U 2 .537 (London, 1575).
Comments:  The 1st ed. of the English 1573 work appeared in 1560.  Peter Whithorne, fl. 1550-1563, was the translator.  Numerous other editions are available at most major midwestern research libraries.  The London 1587 edition is in Italian and is entitled I sette libri dell’arte della guerra di Nicolo Machiavelli.

1538
Soiterus (or Soiter), Melchior, fl. 1538.  De bello pannonico, per illustrissimum principem ...  Fridericum comitem palatinum Rheni Bavariaeom ducem ... adversus Soleymannum Turcarum tyrannum ... gesto ... libri duo. Melchiore Soitero ... auctore ...  Item de Turcarum militaribus magistratibus ... liber unus.  Johanne Schnotenbeckio ... auctore.  M.D.XXXVIII ...  [Colophon:  Augsburg, Alexander Vueissenhorn [Weisshorn], excudebat., 1538.]
MiU (Augsburg, 1538).
Comments:  See also in:  Scriptores rerum hungaricarum veteres ...  Cura et studio Joannis Georgii Schwandtneri ...  [Augsburg], 1746-48; vol. 1 (1746), pp. 569-602.  Available at ICN.

1539
Cottereau, Claude.  ... De jure, et privilegiis militum libri tres.  Ad haec De officio imperatoris liber, no magis ipsi imperatori, quàm cuivis alij communis prudentiae studioso utilis.  Cum singulorum cupitum, vocum, & rerum indice luculentissimo ...  Lyons, Apud Steph. Doletum, 1539.
ICN, Wing fZP 539 .D 685 (Lyons, 1539).

Marozzo, Achille, 16th cent.  Opera nova de Achille Marozzo ... maestro generale, de l’arte de l’armi.  [Modena?, 1540?.]
ICN, Wing ZP 5351 .4 ([Modena?, 1540?]); ICU (Modena, 1540); IU RBC, 796.86 M340 1550 (Venice, 1550); MnU (Modena, 1536).

1543
Amboyse, Michel d’.  Le guidon des gens de guerre.  Paris, 1543.
MiU (Paris, 1543).
Comments:  “We have failed to locate any other copy, either in this country or in Europe, although the work was reprinted in 1878.”  Spaulding.

1547
Nannini, Remigio Fiorentino, 1521?-1581?, ed.  Orationi militari.  Raccolte ... da tutti gli historici greci e latini, antichi e moderni, con gli argomenti che dichiarono l’occasioni, per le quali elle furono fatte, dove sommariamente si toccano l’historie.  Dal medesimo con diligenza corrette & tradotte ...  Venice, Appresso G. Giolito de Ferrari, 1547.
ICN, Case U 0 .5998 (Venice, 1547); MiU, U 101 .N18 (Venice, 1557); IU (Venice, 1557); ICN (Venice, 1557); WU (Venice, 1557); ICU (Venice, 1557); IU (Venice, 1560); ICN, Case U 0 .6 (Venice, 1585).

1550
[Fourquevaux, Raimondo de Beccarie de Pavie, baron de, 1509-1574.]  Tre libri della disciplina militare.  Tradotti nella lingua italiana ...  [Venice, Per M. Tramezzino, 1550.]
ICN, Case U 0 .311 ([Venice, 1550]); French edtions:  ICN, Case U 0 .31088 (Lyons, 1592); MnU (Lyons, 1592); MiU (Lyons, 1592); English edtions:  ICN, Case U 0 .31091 (London, 1589); MiU (London, 1589); MiU Film (London, 1589); ICN U 0 .3109 (London, 1954); MiU (London, 1954); OU (London, 1954); IaU (London, 1954); German edition:  MiU (Mümpelgart, 1594).
Comments:  “One of the most famous, most widely read, and most widely quoted of sixteenth century books on the military art.”  Cockle.  First published anonymously in 1548; wrongly attributed to Guillaume Du Bellay, sieur de Langey.  1550 edition translated by Mambrino Roseo.  1954 edition edited by G. Dickinson.  1589 English edition translated by Paul Ive and bound with Ive, Paul, The practise of fortification ..., 1589.

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.  Tutte le opere. Florence, 1550.
MiU (Florence, 1550); IU (Florence, 1929); ICN (Florence, 1929); ICarbS (Florence, 1929); OU (Florence, 1929); InU (Florence, 1929).
Comments:  The title of the 1929 Florence edition is:  Tutte le opere storiche e letterarie di Niccolò Machiavelli a cura di Guido Mazzoni e Mario Casella.  Some edition of the complete works is available at most major midwestern research libraries.

Tartaglia, Niccolò, d. 1557.  La nova scientia.  Venice, 1550.
MiU (Venice, 1550).
Comments:  “The first published work on ballistics.”  Spaulding.

Valle, Battista della, d. 1535.  Vallo libro continente appertinente à capitanij, ritenere & fortificare una città con bastioni, con novi artificij de fuoco aggionti, come nella tavola appare, & de diverse sorte polvere, & de espugnare una città con ponti, scale, argani, trombe, tranciere, artegliarie, cave, dare avisamenti senza messo allo amico, fare ordinanze, battaglioni, & ponti de dissida con lo pingere.  Opera molto utile con la esperientia de l’arte militare.  Venice, per gli heredi di Piero Ravano, & compagni, 1550.
MiU (Venice, 1550); MnU (Venice, 1550); ICN, Case F 057 .714 (Venice, 1524); IEN (Venice, 1524); ICN (Venice, 1529); MiU (Venice, 1529).
Comments:  With illustrations and diagrams.  First published in Naples, 1521.  “The elementary character of his work made it accessible to the rudest soldier, and it ran through eleven editions in thirty-seven years.”  Cockle.

1551
Giovio, Paolo, bishop of Nocera, 1483-1552.  Pavli Jovii ...  Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium veris imaginibus supposita, quae apub musaeum spectantur.  Florence, in officina L. Torrentini, 1551.
ICN, Case 6A 51 (Florence, 1551); OCl (Florence, 1551); InU (Florence, 1551); MiU (Florence, 1551); OU (Florence, 1551); MiDW (Florence, 1554); MiU (Florence, 1554); ICN (Florence, 1554); ICN, Case 3A 295 (Venice, 1557); ICN, Case 3A 296 (Venice, 1558); IU (Venice, 1559); ICN, Case E 3 .345 (Venice, 1559); MnU (Venice, 1559); MiU (Venice, 1567); MiDU (Venice, 1567); IU (Venice, 1567); ICN, Case fE 3 .34 (Basel, 1575); MiU (Basel, 1575); WU (Basel, 1575); ICN, Case fE 3 .342 (Basel, 1576); IEN (Basel, 1577); WU (Basel, 1579); ICN (Basel, 1579); MiU (Basel, 1579); InU (Basel, 1579).
Comments:  Inspired by the author’s own gallery of portraits.

Polyaenus, c. A.D. 150.  Stratagemi dell’arte della guerra ...  Dalla greca nella volgar lingua italiana tradotti da m. Nicolo Mutoni.  Venice, Al segno d’Erasmo, 1551.
ICN, Case Y 642 .P 6988 (Venice, 1551); IU, 881 P68 .Im (Venice, 1552); ICN, Case Y 642 .P 699 (Venice, 1552); ICN, Case Y 642 .P 6984 (Lyons, 1589).
Comments:  “Polyaenus (circa A.D. 150) dedicated his “Stratagems of War” to the Emperors M. Aurelius and L. Verus ...  His materials were collected from sources many of which are now lost, so that his work is an important one, scanty as the details are.”  Cockle.  The 1552 edition is entitled Gli strategemi di Polieno; di grandissimo utile a i capitani nelle diverse occasioni della guerra ...  Lelio Carrani translated the work from Greek to Italian.

1552
Polybius, 205?-125? B.C.  Polibio Del modo dell’accampare.  Tradotto di greco per M. Philippo Strozzi.  Calculo della castrametatione di messer Bartholomeo Cavalcanti.  Comparationé dell’armodura, & dell’ordinanza de Romani & de Macedoni di Polibio.  Tradotta dal medesimo  Scelt a de gli Apophtegmi di Pluctarco.  Tradotti per m. Philippo Strozi.  Eliano De nomi, & de gli ordini militari.  Tradotto di greco per m. Lelio Carani.  Florence, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1552.
ICU (Florence, 1552); ICN, Case U 0 .712 (Florence, 1552).

1554
Cataneo (or Cattaneo), Pietro, 1510-1569.  I quattro primi libri di architettura.  Venice, sons of Aldo [Manuzio], 1554.
MiU (Venice, 1554); IU (Venice, 1554); OKentC (Venice, 1554).
Comments:  “First edition.  43 woodcut plans of ideal fortified towns.”  Pollak.

Tartaglia, Niccolò, d. 1557.  Quesiti et inventioni diverse ... di novo restampati con una gionta al sesto libro, nella quale si mostra duoi modi di redur una città inespugnabile.  [Venice, Per Nicolo de Bascarini], Appresso de l’auttore, 1554.
MiU ([Venice], 1554); InU, Lilly UF 825 .T19 N93 1558 ([Venice], 1554); ICJ ([Venice], 1554); ICN U 0 .862 (N.p., n.d.).
Comments:  Bound with his La nova scientia, Venice, 1558.  Portion of imprint from colophon.  Two previous editions printed 1546.

Zanchi, Giovanni Battista de’, b. 1515.  Del modo di fortificar le città.  Trattato.  Venice, P. Pietrasanta, 1554.
MnU (Venice, 1554); MiU (Venice, 1540).
Comments:  Only 63 pages with illustrations.

1555
Gorgieri, Lauro.  Trattato della guerra.  Pesaro, Bartolomeo Cesano, 1555.
MiU (Pesaro, 1555).

1556
Du Choul, Guillaume, 16th cent.  Discorso sopra la castrametatione, et disciplina militare de Romani ... con i bagni, & essercitij antichi de Greci, & Romani ...  Tradotto in lingua toscana par M. Gabriel Symeoni.  Lyons, Appresso G. Rovillio, 1556.
ICN, Case fU 135 .244 (Lyons, 1556); IU (Padua, 1558); ICN (Venice, 1582); MnU (Venice, 1582).

1557
Lanteri, Giacomo, d. c. 1560.  Due dialoghi di m. Jacomo de’ Lanteri ... ne i quali s’introduce Messr Girolamo Catanio ... & Messer Francesco Treulisi ... à ragionare del modo di disengnare le piante delle fortezze secondo Enclide; et del modo di comporre i modelli & torre in disegno le piante delle Città.  Venice, appresso V. Valgrisi, & Baldessar, 1557.
ICN (Venice, 1557); OU Film 15-51 no.30 (Venice, 1557); MiU (Venice, 1601);
Comments:  OU copy is a microfilm of original in Biblioteca Vaticana. “Lanteri served the king of Spain as engineer in Naples and on the coast of northern Africa where he drew up the plans of local fortifications.”  Pollak.

1558
Centorio degli Hortensii, Ascanio, b. 1480.  Discorsi di guerra, del Signor Ascanio Centorio.  Divisi in cinque libri.  Nel primo si continne l’officio d’un Generale d’essercito, nel secondo, l’ordine del medesimo per espugnare una Provincia.  Nel terzo, si tratta delle qualità, ufficio, et autoritàd’un mastro di campo;  nel quarto, del modo che devetenere una città che aspetta l’assedio; e nel quinto, sotto diversi capi si contengono molte cose appartenenti all’arte dell militia.
MnU (Venice, 1558); MiU (Venice, 1558-1562); ICN, Case U 0 .158 (Venice, 1558-62)
Comments:  Apparently, only the Newberry and the Michigan libraries have all five discourses.

Frönsperger, Leonhardt, baron von Mindelheim, 1520-1575.  Fünff Bücher, vonn Kriegs Regiment und Ordnung, wie sich ein jeder Kriegssmann inn seinem Ampt unnd Beuelch halten soll, was zu anfang eines Kriegs zuerwegen unnd zubetrachten sey ...  Durch Lienhart Frönsperger.  Frankfurt, Getruckt durch Davidem Zephelium, 1558.
MnU (Frankfurt, 1558); MnU (Frankfurt, 1564).
Comments:  1564 edition entitled Kriegs Ordnung und Regiment, sampt derselbigen Befehl, Statt und Empter, zu Rossz und Fuss, auch an Geschütz und Munition, in Zügen, zu Feldt ...

Philipp Eberhard, duke of Cleve, 1456-1528.  Instruction de toutes manieres de guerroyer, tant par terre que par mer, des choses y servantes.  Redigée par escript, par Messire Philippes duc de Cleves, cìte de La Marche, & seigneur de Ravestain.  Paris, G. Morel, 1558.
MiU, U 101 .P55 (Paris, 1558).

Tartaglia, Niccolò, 1499-1557.  La nova scientia.  Venice, 1558.
MiU (Venice, 1558).

1559
Lanteri, Giacomo, d. c. 1560.  Due libri di N. Giacomo Lanteri ...  Del modo di fare le fortificationi di terra intorno alle città, & alle castella per fortificarele.  Et Di fare cosi i forti in campagna per gli allogiamenti de gli esserciti; come anco per andar sotto ad una terra, di fare i ripari nelle batterie.  Venice, Appresso Bolognino, Zaltieri, 1559.
MiU, UG 400 .L32 (Venice, 1559); MnU (Venice, 1559).
Comments:  This is a separate work from the Due Dialoghi, 1557.

La Ramée, Pierre de, 1515?-1572.  P. Rami, regii eloquentiae et philosophiae professoris, Liber de Caesaris militia, ad Carolum Lotharingum cardinalem.    Paris, Apud Andream Wechelum, 1559.
MiU (Paris, 1559); ICN (Paris, 1559); IU (Paris, 1559); ICJ (Frankfurt, 1584); IaU (Frankfurt, 1584); ICN (Frankfurt, 1584); IU (Frankfurt, 1584); IU RBC, Baldwin 2194 (N.p., c. 1600).

Solms, Reinhard, graf von, 1491-1562.  Das Kriegsbuch.  4 vols. in 1.  Lich, 1559.
ICN, Wing +ZP 547 .S 688 (Lich, 1559).
Comments:  Bound with Philipp Eberhard, duke of Cleves, Borgundische Kriegesordnung, 1559.  A work on the organization and administration of an army written by Count Reinhard, the elder, of Solms-Lich, lord of Muenzenberg who published the work at a press he established in his residence at Lich.

1564
Fronsperger, Leonhardt, baron von Mindelheim, 1520-1575.  Von Geschütz und Fewerwerck wie dasselb zuwerffen unnd schiessen ...  Das ander Buch.  Von Erbawung, Erhaltung, Besatzung unnd Profantierung der wehrlichen Bevestungen...  Frankfurt, 1564.
ICN, Case fU 0 .3145 (Frankfurt, 1564).
Comments:  Colophon:  Getruckt ... bey Johann Lechler in Verlegung Sigemund Feyerabendt und Simon Hüter.

1566
Cicuta, Aurelio, fl. 1566.  Della disciplina militare del capitano Alfonso Adriano [pseud.].  Libri III ... Con due tavole ... & una dichiaratione intorno a’ nomi antichi, & moderni de’ regni.  Venice, Appresso L Avanzo, 1566.
ICN, Case U 0 .169 (Venice, 1566); MiU (Venice, 1566).

Rocca, Bernardino, 1515-1587.  Imprese, stratagemi, et errori militari.  Venice, Gabriel Giolito, 1566.
MiU (Venice, 1566); MiU (Venice, 1567); WU (Venice, 1567); ICN, Case U 0 .753 (Venice, 1567).
Comments:  Continuation issued in 1570.

1567
Cataneo, Girolamo, fl. ca. 1540-1584.  Avertimenti et essamini intorno a quelle cose che richiede a un bombardiero, cosi circa all’artegliaria, come anco a fuochi arte ficiati.  Di Girolamo Cataneo novarese.  Da lui, in questa seconda impressione, in diversa luoghi ampliati.  Brescia, Appreso Thomaso Bozzola, 1567.
MiU (Brescia, 1567).

Cataneo, Girolamo, fl. ca. 1540-1584.  Tavole brevissime per sapere con prestezza quante file vanno a’ formare una giustissima battaglia ...  Et appresso un facilissimo, et approvato modo di armarla di archibugieri, &, di ale di cavalleria secondo, l’uso moderno.  Di nuovo aggionte, et largamente ampliate ... dal medesimo auttore ...  Brescia, appresso Thomaso Bozola, 1567.
ICN, Case 4A 975 (Brescia, 1567); English edition:  ICN, Case U 2 .537 (London, 1574); MiU (London, 1574).
Comments:  English edition translated from Italian by H. G.  “The standard manual for the use of sergeants-major general, translated from the Italian of 1563.”  Spaulding.  ICN edition (London, 1574) is with Machiavelli, Niccolò, The arte of warre ..., 1573.

Cicogna, Giovanni Mattheo.  Il primo libro del trattato militare ... nel quale si contengono varie regole, & diversi modi, per fare con l’ordinanza battaglie nuove di fanteria.  Venice, Appresso Giovanni Bariletto, 1567.
MiU (Venice, 1567); ICN, Case U 0 .172 (Venice, 1567).

Mora, Domenico, 1539-?.  Tre quesiti in dialogo sopra il fare batterie, fortificare una città, et ordinar battaglie quadrate, con una disputa di precedenza tra l’arme & le lettere.  Di M. Domenico Mora, bolognese ...  Venice, Per Giovanni Varisco, & compagni, 1567.
MiU (Venice, 1567); ICN (Venice, 1567).

1568
Ferretti, Francesco, fl. 1577.  Della osservanza militare ... libri due ...  Venice, C. & R. Borgomineri fratelli, 1568.
ICN, Case U 0 .172 (Venice, 1568); MiU (Venice, 1576); ICN, Case U 0 .292 (Venice, 1577).

Marozzo, Achille, 16th cent.  Arte dell’armi, di Achille Marozzo ...  Ricorretto, et ornato di nuove figure in rame.  Venice, Appresso A. Pinargenti, 1568.
ICN, Wing ZP 535 .P 63 (Venice, 1568).
Comments:  Colophon:  In Venetia, 1569.

1569
Du Choul, Guillaume, 16th cent.  Discorso della religione antica de Romani, insieme un’altro discorso della castrametatione, & disciplina militare, bagni, et essercitij antichi di detti Romani.  Composti in franzese dal S. Guglielmo Choul ... et tradotti ... in toscano da M. Gabriel Simeoni.  Lione, Appresso Guglielmo Rovillio, 1569.
IU (Lione, 1569); MiU (Lione, 1569); IMunS (Lione, 1569); ICN (Lione, 1558); ICU (Lione, 1558); IU (Lione, 1559); MnU (Lione, 1559); French editions:  ICN (Lyon, 1581); InNd (Lyon, 1581); IU (Lyon, 1581); IEN (Lyon, 1581); Spanish edition:  IU (Leon, 1579).

1570
Mora, Domenico, 1539-?.  Il soldato di m. Domenico Mora, bolognese ...  nel quale si tratta di tutto quello, che ad un vero soldato, & nobil cavalliere si conviene sapere, & essercitare nel mestire dell’arme.  Et questa, secondo l’ordine da noi posto è la quarta [i.e., quinta] gioia congiunta all’anella della nostra Collana historica ...  Venice, Appresso Gabriel Giolito di Ferrarii, 1570.
InU, Lilly U 101 .M82 S68 (Venice, 1570); ICN, Case U 2 .592 (Venice, 1570); MiU (Venice, 1570).
Comments:  With illustrations and diagrams.  Lilly imprint:  1570.  Colophon:  In Venetia, Per Giovan. Griffio, 1569.  “Giolito printed only the preliminary matter; the text is that of the first edition, printed by Griffio in 1569.  ICN edition edited by Tomaso Porcacchi.

Rocca, Bernardino, 1515-1587.  La seconda [-terza] parte del governo della militia ... nella qual sitratta ... come s’ha da procedere ne’ fatti d’arme ...  Et questa ... è la sesta gioia congiunta all’anella della nostra collana historica ...  2 vols.  Venice, Appresso G. Giolito di Ferrari, 1570.
ICN, Case U 0 .754 (Venice, 1570); MiU (Venice, 1570).
Comments:  A continuation of the author’s Imprese ...

1571
Rocca, Bernardino, 1515-1587.  Des entreprises et ruses de guerre:  et des fautes qui par fois surviennent és progrez & execution dicelles:  ou Le vray pourtrait d’un parfait general d’armee:  tiré de l’italien du sieur Bernardin Roque de Plaisance par le seigneur de la Popelliniere, Lancelot du Voesin.  Ici sont donnez les moyens de bien faire la guerre:  soit pour façonner les soldats à la devotion du chef, pour assieger ou deffendre une place, pour bien regler, conduire & faire camper une armée:  soit pour emporter l’avantage tant és escarmousches, surprises, rencontres, que batailles assignees.  Le tout enrichi de si graves sentences & notables exemples anciens & modernes, que le discours n’en peut qui en fera la lecture.  Paris, Chez Nicolas Chesneau, rue S. Jaques, à l’enseigne de l’escu de Froben, & du chesne verd, 1571.
MiU (Paris, 1571).
Comments:  A translation of Rocca’s Impresse stratagemi et errori militari.

1572
Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. 1566.  Precetti della militia oderna, tanto per mare, quanto per terra.  Trattati da diversi ... ingegni, & raccolti ... dal Signor Girolamo Ruscelli.  Ne’ quali si contiene tutta l’arte del Bombardiero ...  Venice, Appresso gli Heredi di Marchio Sessa, 1572.
MnU (Venice, 1572); MiU (Venice, 1572); ICN (Venice, 1583).

1573
Fronsperger, Leonhardt, baron von Mindelheim, 1520-1575.  Kriegszbuch ...  2 vols. in 1.  Frankfurt, Sigmund Feyerabendt, 1573.
InU, Lilly DD 102.7 .F934 K9 (Frankfurt, 1573); ICN, Case fU 0 .3144 (Frankfurt, 1573-78 [vol. 1, ‘78]); OCl (Frankfurt, 1573-78); MiU (Frankfurt, 1573-78); MiU (Frankfurt, 1596).
Comments:  First edition (Frankfurt, 1573, 2 vols.).   Contents:  Vol. 1. Von kayserlichem Kriegszrechten, Malefitz und Schuldhändlen, Ordnung und Regiment.  Jetzt von newem ... ubersehen, und ... gebessert.  Vol. 2.  Von Wagenburgk und die Feldleger ... item von allerley Geschütz und Feuerwerck ...  Vol. 3. Von Schantzen unnd Befestunngen.  This work also contains numerous woodcuts (including portrait of author), by Jost Amman.  “The most important work on military science published during the sixteenth century, containing practically all that was considered of military interest, and forming the acknowledged authority of its subject.”  Spaulding.

Whithorne, Peter, fl. 1550-1563.  Certaine wayes for the ordering of souldiours in battleray, and setting of battayles, after divers fashions, with their maner of marching:  and also fugures [sic] of certayne newe plattes for fortification of townes: and more over, howe to make saltpeter, gunpouder, and divers sortes of fireworkes or wilde fyre.  London, W. Williamson for J. Wight, 1573.
ICN, Case U 2 .537 (London, 1573); MiU (London, 1573).
Comments:  “The first Englishman to write on fortification and on the manufacture of gunpowder.”  Spaulding.  ICN edition (London, 1573) with Machiavelli, Niccolò, The arte of warre ..., 1573.

1575
Locatelli, Vincentio.  Invito generale del cap. Vincentio Locatelli da cremona ...  Alli professori del reparare, fortificare, & edificare luoghi, & a quelli che dapoi construtti detti luoghi accettano carico di difenderli contra la tremenda offesa hoggidi usata da Maumetani, cioè, de canoni, colubrine, basilsichi, zappa, & pala ...  Bologna, 1575.
MiU (Bologna, 1575).
Comments:  “The University [of Michigan] has several hundred books, of which this treatise is one, from the library of Riccardi, the great Italian bibliographer of mathematics.”  Spaulding.

Zuccolo, Gregorio.  I discorsi ...  Ne i quali si tratta della nobilita, honore, amore, fortificationi, et antigaglie ...   Venice, appresso Gio. Bariletto, 1575.
IU, RBC (Venice, 1575).

1576
Ferretti, Francesco, fl. 1577.  Della osservanza militare.  Venice, Camillo & Rutilio, Borgominerii Fratelli, 1576.
MiU (Venice, 1576); ICN, Case U 0.292 (Venice, 1577); ICN, Case U 0 .293 (Ancona, 1579); ICN, Case U O .294 (Ancona, 1604).
Comments:  1577 edition is revised and expanded.  1579 edition and subsequent editions are entitled Diporti notturni.  Dialoghi familliari del cap. Franc. Ferretti ...  Con la dimostratione figurale intagliata da Michel’ Angelo Marrelli ...  Ancona, Appresso Francesco Salvioni, 1579.  The dedication and collophon of the 1579 edition are dated 1580.

1578
Proctor, Thomas, fl. 1578.  Of the knowledge and conducte of warres, two bookes, latelye wrytten and sett foorth, profitable for suche as delight in hystoryes, or martyall affayres, and necessarye for this present tyme.  [London], In aedibus Richard Tottell, 1578.
ICJ ([London], 1578); MiU ([London], 1578).
Comments:  ICJ edition ([London], 1578) is with Cataneo, Girolamo, Most brief tables, 1574.

1579
Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.  A generall rehearsall of warres, wherein is five hundred severall services of land and sea:  as sieges, battailles, skirmiches, and encounters.  A thousande gentle mennes names, of the best sort of warriours.  A praise and true honour of soldiours:  a proofe of perfite nobilitie.  A triall and first erection of heraldes:  a discourse of calamitie.  And joyned to the same some tragedies and epitaphes as many as was necessarie for this firste booke ...  London, Imprinted by E. White, 1579.
ICN, Case Y 145 .C 48 (London, 1579); MiU (London, 1579).

Digges, Leonard, d. 1571?.  An arithmetical militare treatise, named Stratioticos ...  London, Printed by H. Bynneman, 1579; reprint, xerox copy, Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1965.
ICN 4A 1307 (London, 1579; Ann Arbor, Mich., 1965); MiU (London, 1579; Ann Arbor, Mich., 1965); IU (London, 1579); MiU (London, 1590).

1581
Styward, Thomas.  The pathwaie to martiall discipline, devided into two bookes, verie necessarie for young souldiers, or for all such as loveth the profession of armes.  The first book entreateth of the offices from the highest to the lowest, with the lawes of the field, arming, mustering and training of souldiers, with the imbattailing of such numbers, to the greatest force of the like regiments.  The second booke entreateth of sundrie proportions and training of caleevers and how to bring bowes to a great perfection of service, with imbattailling of greater regiments:  also how to march with a campe royall:  likewise how to encampe the same, with divers tables annexed for the present making of your battells, as otherwise to know how manie paces they require in their march & battels from 500 to 1000.  London, Imprinted by T. East for M. [Myles] Jenyngs, 1581.
ICN, Case U 0 .8534 (London, 1581); MiU  Microfilm AC 4 E5 Reel no. 333, [University microfilms no. 15600 (case 56, carton 333), short-title catalogue no. 23413] (London, 1581); MiU Microfilm AC 4 E5 Reel no. 333, [University microfilms no. 15601 (case 56, carton 333), short-title catalogue no. 23414] (London, 1582).
Comments:  The third book does not appear in the London, 1582 copy at MiU.

1582
Ayala, Baltasar.  De jure et officiis bellicis et disciplina militari.  2 vols.  N.p., ca. 1582; microfilm copy, n.p., n.d.
ICN, Microfilm, 558, reel 1 (N.p., ca. 1582; n.p., n.d.).

Gutierrez de la Vega, Luis, b. ca. 1509.  A compendious treatise entituled, De re militari, containing principall orders to be observed in martiall affaires.  Written in the Spanish tongue.  And newlie translated into English, by Nicholas Lichefild ...  London, Imprinted by T. [Thomas] East, 1582.
ICN, Case U 2 .37 (London, 1582); MiU Film,  University microfilms no. 14376 (case 54, carton 320), short-title catalogue no. 12538 (London, 1582).
Comments:  ICN edition (London, 1582) contains manuscript notes and was bound by Riviere & Son.

Rocca, Bernardino, 1515-1587.  De’ discorsi di guerra ...  Libri quattro.  Dove s’insegno a’capitani, & soldaiti il modo di condurre esserciti, di far fatti d’arme, espugnare, & difender città ... con gran copia d’essempij antichi, & moderni appartenenti all’arte militare ...  Venice, Appresso D. Zenaro, 1582.
ICN, Case U 0 .752 (Venice, 1582); MnU (Venice, 1582); MiU (Venice, 1582).

1583
Cicogna, Giovanni Mattheo.  Il primo libro del Trattato militare ... nel quale si contengono varie regole ... per fare con l’ordinanza battaglie nuove di fanteria ...  Venice, Appresso C. Castelli, 1583.
ICN, Case U 0 .1722 (Venice, 1583); MiU (Venice, 1567); ICN, Case U 0 .172 (Venice, 1567).
Comments:  Infantry drill and tactics.

Escalante, Bernardino de, 16th cent.  Dialogos del arte militar ...  Seville, A. Pescioni, 1583.
InU, Lilly UA 782 .E74 Mendel (Seville, 1583).
Comments:  First edition.

Rovere, Francesco Maria [I] della, duke of Urbino, 1490-1538.  Discorsi militari ... ne i quali si discorrono molti avantaggi, & disvantaggi, della guerra, utilissimi ad ogni soldato.  Ferrara, Per D. Mammarelli, 1583.
ICN, Case U 0 .3112 (Ferrara, 1583); ICN 4A 3107 (Mantova, 1902).
Comments:  1583 edition edited by D. Mammarelli.  The Discorsi also concern the fortifications of Venice.

García de Palacio, Diego, fl. 1576-1587.  Diálogos militares por el doctor Diego García de Palacio ...  Obra impressa en México, por Pedro de Ocharte, en 1583, y ahora editada en facsimil.  Madrid, Ediciones Cultura Hispanica, 1944.
InU, Lilly Mendel Z 241.3 .A 1 C6 v.7 (Mexico, 1583; Madrid, 1944); ICN, Ayer 655 .52 G19 1583 1944 (Mexico, 1583; Madrid, 1944).
Comments:  From Colección de incunables americanos, siglo XVI, vol. 7.  Title of facsimilie:  Dialogos militares, de la formacion, è informacion de personas, instrumentos, y cosas nescessarias para el buen uso de la guerra.  Compuesto por el Doctor Diego Garcia de Palacio.  Mexico, En casa de Pedro Ocharte, 1583.

Maggi, Girolamo, d. 1572.  Della fortificatione delle città, di Girolamo Maggi, e del capitan Jacomo Castriotto ...  Discorso del medesimo Maggi sopra la fortificatione de gli alloggiamenti de gli esserciti.  Discorso del capitan Francesco Montemellino sopra la fortificatione del Borgo di Roma.  Trattato dell’ordinanze, ò vero battaglie del capitan Giovacchino da Coniano.  Ragionamento del sudetto Castriotto sopra le fortezze della Francia.  Venice, Appresso C. Borgominiero, 1583.
ICN (Venice, 1583); MiU (Venice, 1583).

Patrizi, Francesco, 1529-1597.  La militia romana di Polibio, di Tito Livio, e di Dionigi Alicarnaseo.  Da Francesco Patricii dichiarata e con varie figure illustrata ...  Ferrara, Per D. Mamarelli, 1583.
ICN, Case U 0 .664 (Ferrara, 1583); MiU (Ferrara, 1583).
Comments:  ICN edition has armorial bookplates of Marchésa Salsa, and of Baron Ward, Earl of Dudley.

Ruscilli, Girolamo, d. 1566.  Precetti della militia moderna, tanto per mare, qvanto per terra.  Venice, M. Sessa, 1583.
ICN, Case U 0 .765 (Venice, 1583).

1584
Cataneo, Girolamo, fl. ca. 1540-1584.  Dell’arte militare libri cinque, ne’ quali si tratta il modo di fortificare offendere, et diffendere una fortezza:  et l’ordine come si debbano fare gli alloggiamenti campali; & formare le battaglie, con l’essamine de’ bombardieri, & di far fuochi arteficiati.  Di Girolamo Cataneo novarese ...  5 vols. in 1.  Brescia, Appresso Pietro Maria Marchetti, 1584.
IU 623.1 C28d 1584 (Brescia, 1584); MiU (Brescia, 1584).

Maggi, Girolamo, d. 1572, and Castriotto, Jacomo Fusto, fl. 1548.  Della fortificatione delle citta.  Di M. Girolamo Maggi, e del capitan Jacomo Castriotto ...  Venice, Camillo Borgominiero, 1584.
MiU (Venice, 1584).
Comments:  The most extensive treatise of fortification published up to this time.

1585
Brancaccio, Lelio, 1560-1637.  Della nuova disciplina & vera arte militare del Brancatio libri VIII ...  Venice, Presso Aldus, 1585.
MiU (Venice, 1585); ICN, Case U 2 .12 (Venice, 1585).

Nannini, Remigio Fiorentino, 1521?-1581?, ed.  Orationi militari.  Raccolte per m. Remigio Fiorentino, da tutti gli historici greci, e latini; antichi, e moderni.  Con gli argomenti, che dechiarano l’occasioni, per lequali elle furon fatte ...  Venice, Alla insegna della Concordia, 1585.
ICN, Case U 0 .6 (Venice, 1585).
Comments:  Colophon:  In Venetia, Appresso Gio. Antonio Bertano, 1585.

1586
Collado, Luis.  Practica manuale di arteglieria; nella quale si tratta della inventione di essa, dell’ordine di condurla, & piantarla sotto à qualunque fortezza, fabricar mine da far volar in alto le fortezze, spianar le montagne, divertir acque offensive à i Regni & provincie, tirar co i pezzi in molti & diversi modi, far fuochi artificiali; con altri bellissimisecreti all’essercitio dell’arteglieria appartenenti.    Nuovamente composta & data in luce Dal Mag. Signor Luigi.  Venice, Presso Pietro Dusinelli, 1586.
MiU (Venice, 1586); Spanish edition:  MiU (Milan, 1592).
Comments:  The writer is said to have been the first to conduct practical tests of firing.  The Spanish edition of 1592 is greatly enlarged from the first edition of 1586, and practically a new work.

Evoli, Cesare d’, 16th cent.  Delle ordinanze et battaglie del signor Cesare d’Evoli ...  Nuovamente da lui revisto & corretto con l’agiuntione di molte cose necessarie.  Con un nuovo trattato de gli allogiamenti di capmpagna ...  Rome, Tito & Paulo Diani, 1586.
MiU (Rome, 1586); ICN, Case fu 2 .018 (Rome, 1586).

Schiavina, Zaccaria.  Breve essamine intorno l’artegliarie, cannoni, colombrine, perieri, mortari, & altri simili instromenti, con il modo di cognoscerli et usarli utilissimo à tutti quelli che brevemente vogliono essercitarsi in questa arte.  Raccolto dal giudicio del sign. capitano Zaccaria Schiavina ...  Et posta in luce per m. Achille Porporini bresciano.    Brescia, Apresso Policreto Turlini, 1586.
MiU (Brescia, 1586).

1587
La Noue, François de, 1531-1591.  Discours politiques et militaires du Seigneur de la Noue.  Nouvellement recueillis & mis en lumiäre par Philippe Canaye, sieur de Fresne.  Basel, L’imprimerie de F. Forest, 1587.
IaU (Basel, 1587); ICN, Case U 0 .476 (Basel, 1587); MnU (Basel, 1587); IU (Basel, 1587); ICU (Basel, 1587); ICU (Basel, 1588); ICN, Case U 0 .477 ([Paris?], 1588); ICU (Lyons, 1595); WU (Lyons, 1595); MiU (Basel, 1599); MiU (Paris, 1612); OCU (Geneva, 1614); ICN F 39193 .48 (Paris, 1793); OClW (Paris, 1819-29); ICN 4A 2665 (Geneva, 1967); English editions:  MiU (London, 1587); ICU (London, 1587); OClW (London, 1587); ICN (London, 1587).
Comments:  “Written by the great Huguenot general, called Bras-de-fer, during his five years’ imprisonment in the Spanish Netherlands.”  Spaulding.

1588
Belleforest, François de, 1530-1583.  Harangues militaires, et concions de princes, capitaines, ambassadeurs, et autres, manians tant la guerre que les affaires d’estat ...  Recueillies, faites françoises par François de Bell-forest ...  Reveu, corrige, augmenté, & enrichi de plusieurs belles harangues de nostre temps, pour la seconde edition.  Paris, I. Houze, 1588.
ICN, Case fU 0 .084 (Paris, 1588).

Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-ca. 1600.  La diverse et artificiose machine del capitano Agostino Ramelli.  Composte in lingua italiana et francese.  Paris, 1588.
IaAs (Paris, 1588); ICN (Paris, 1588); ICJ (Paris, 1588); IaU (Paris, 1588); OClW (Paris, 1588); WU (Paris, 1588); MiU (Paris, 1588).

Tartaglia, Niccolò, d. 1557.  Three books of colloquies concerning the arte of shooting in great and small peeces of artillerie.  London, T. Dawson for I. Harrison, 1588.
ICN, Case fU 444 .86 (London, 1588).

Xenophon, Cyrupaedia, 434?-355? B.C.  Le opere di Senofonte molto utili a capitani di guerra et al viver morale et civile.  Tradotte dal greco da Marc’Antonio Gandini.  Con alcune annotationi, necessarie per l’intelligenza di tutta l’opera ...  Venice, Presso Pietro Dusinelli, 1588.
IU, RBC 881 x2 .Ig (Venice, 1588); French edition IU, RBC Xq881 X2.Fc (Cologne, 1613); English edition:  IU, RBC 881 x2c.El (London, 1632).
Comments:  The 1613 edition is dedicated to Louis XIII by Pyramus de Candole who edited the volume.  The English edition is entitled:  The institution and life of Cyrus, the first of that name, king of Persians.  Eight bookes.  Treating of noble education, of princely exercises, military discipline, warlike stratagems, preparations and expeditions:  as appeareth by the contents before the beginning of the first booke.  Written in Greeke by the sage Xenophon.  Translated out of Greeke into English and conferred with the Latine and French translations by Philemon Holland of the city of Coventry doctor in physick.  Dedicated to His Most Excellent Maiesty ...  London, Printed by J. L. for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the signe of the Beare in Pauls church-yard, 1632.

1589
Escalante, Bernardino de, 16th cent.  Dialogos, del arte militar de Bernardino de Escalante ...  Brussels, En casa de Rutger Velpio, 1588.
MiU (Brussels, 1588).

Ive, Paul, fl. 1589-1602, comp.  The practise of fortification:  wherein is shewed the manner of fortifying in all sorts of scituations, with the considerations to be used in delining, and making of royal frontiers, skonces, and renforcing of ould walled townes.  Compiled ... by Paule Ive ...  Imprinted at London, By T. [Thomas] Orwin, for T. [Thomas] Man, and T. [Toby] Cooke, 1589.
ICN, Case U 0 .31091 (London, 1589); MiU Film Short-title catalogue no. 14289, carton 963 (London, 1589).
Comments:  Contains diagrams.  With [Fourquevaux, Raimond de Beccarie de Pavie, baron de], Instructions for the warres ..., 1589.

Mora, Domenico, 1539-?.  Il cavaliere in risposta del Gentil’huomo del Sig: Mutio ... nella precedenza del armi, et delle lettere ...  Vilna, Appresso D. Lanciense, 1589.
ICN, Case F 05 .594 (Vilna, 1589).

1590
Alaba y Viamont, Diego.  El perfeto capitan, instruido en la disciplina militar, y nueva ciencia de la artilleria.  Madrid, Pedro Madrigal, 1590.
MiU (Madrid, 1590).

Digges, Thomas, d. 1595.  An arithmetical warlike treatise named Stratioticos ...  As well concerning the science or art of great artilleries, as the offices of the sergeant major generall ...  London, 1590.
MiU (London, 1590).

Discours de la police et discipline militaire, à l’imitation des anciens Grecs & Romains & selon qu’elle a esté observée par les plus advisez & experimentez capitaines de nostre temps.  Basel, 1590.
ICN, Case U 0 .234 (Basel, 1590).
Comments:  The author, a Protestant refugee in Basel, signs his dedication to Henri IV: F. D. D. R.

Smythe, Sir John, 1534?-1607.  Certain discourses, written by Sir John Smythe, knight:  concerning the formes and effects of divers sorts of weapons, and other verie important matters militarie, greatlie mistaken by divers of our men of warre in these daies; and chiefly of the mosquet, the caliver and the long-bow; as also, of the great sufficiencie, excellencie, and wonderful effects of archers:  with many notable examples and other particularities.  By him presented to the nobilitie of this realme, & published for the benefite of this his native countrie of England.  London, Richard Johnes, 1590.
WU (London, 1590); MiU (London, 1590); MiU [Film] AC4E5 Reel no. 340 (London, 1590); ICN, U 0 .826 (Ithaca, NY, 1964).
Comments:  The most eloquent argument in favor of the longbow against firearms.  A manuscript dated 1589, now in the Folger library, is possibly Sir John’s final revision of the work for the press.  The 1964 edition is edited by J.R. Hale.

Valdés, Francisco de.  Dialogo militar.  Compuesto por el maestro de campo Francisco de Valdes:  en el qual se trata del oficio del sargento mayor ...  Madrid, Por Pedro Madrigal, 1590.
MiU (Madrid, 1590); IEN (Madrid, 1944); English edition:  MiU Film University microfilms no. 15711, case 79, short-title catalogue no. 24570, carton 471 (London, 1590); Italian edition:  MiU (Venice, 1598).
Comments:  Dedication to 1590 Madrid edition dated 1571.  First published in 1586 under title:  Epeio, y deceplina militar.  Madrid, 1944 edition entitled:  Espejo y disciplina militar.  Francisco Manuel de Melo:  Politica militar.  [Prólogo por Joaquin Rodríguez Arzua].  From the Colección Cisneros.  [Melo, Francisco Manuel de, 1608-1666.]  English edition entitled The sergeant major.  A dialogue of the office of a sergeant major.  Translated by John Thorius.  Italian edition (Venice, 1598) translated by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, 1538-1621?.

1591
Digges, Thomas, d. 1595.  A geometrical practical treatize named Pantometria ...  Lately reviewed by the author himselfe and augmented with sundrie “additions,” “diffinitions,” ... to open the passage and prepare away to the understanding of his Treatys of martially pyrotechnic and great artillerie, hereafter to be published.  London, Abell Jeffes, 1591.
MiU (London, 1591).

1592
Gentilini, Eugenio.  Instruttioni de’ bombardieri, di Eugenio Gentilini da Este.  Oue si contiene l’esamina usata dallo strenuo Zaccharia Schiaviana.  L’aggiunta che copiosamente dichiara, quanto nell’esamina si comprendre:  et un discorso intorno alle fortezze, fatto tra l’autore e suo fratello, il capitan marin ingegnero della serenissma Republica di Venetia.  Dalle quali ogni bombardiero e capi maestri vengono à pieno instrutti di ciò, ch’alla lor professione appartiene; e per maggior lor eccellenza anco vi sono alcuni mezzi geometrici, che molto son giouevoli communemente a bombardieri, & a ingegneri di fortezze.  Vi son anco le figure per maggior intelligenza.  Venice, appresso Francesco de’ Franceschi Senese, 1592.
ICN (Venice, 1592).

Molanus, Johannes, 1533-1585.  Militia sacra ducum et principum Brabantiae ...  Adiectae sant ... annotationes M. Petri Louwij ...  Antwerp, Ex officina Plantiniana, Apud viduam, & Joannem  Morelum, 1592.
ICN, Case F 46616 .586 (Antwerp, 1592).

1593
Sutcliffe, Matthew.  The practice, proceedings, and lawes of armes.  London, Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1593.
MiU (London, 1593).

1594
Patrizi [or Patrici], Francesco, 1529-1597.  Paralleli militari di Francesco Patrizi.  Ne’ quali si fa paragone delle milizie antiche, in tutte le parti loro, con le moderne ...  2 vols. in 1.  Rome, L. [Luigi] Zannetti, 1594-95.
MiU (Rome, 1594-95); ICN, Case fU 0 .666 (Rome, 1594-95).
Comments:  Vol. 2 has title:  De Paralleli militari ...  Parte II.  Della militia riformata ...  Rome, G. Facciotto, 1595.

1595
Carrión Pardo, Juan, fl. 1595.  Tratado como se deven formar los quatro esquadrones, en que militia nuestre nacion española:  en el qual se hallaran cosas muy curiosas tocantes al origen de las armas ...  Lisbon, A. Alvarez, 1595.
ICN, Case U 2 .787 (Lisbon, 1595).
Comments:  With Scarion, Bartolmé, Doctrina militar ..., 1598.

Escalante, Bernardino de, 16th cent.  Dialogos, del arte militar de Bernardino de Escalante ...  Brussels, En casa de Rutger Velpio, 1595; microfilm copy, n.p., 1961.
ICN Film 15-24 no.14a (Brussels, 1595; n.p., 1961); OU, RBC Film 15-24 no.14 (Brussels, 1595; n.p., 1961).
Comments:  Original in Vatican (Biblioteca vaticana).  Bound with Londono, Sancho de, El discursos sobre la forma de reduzir la disciplina militar ..., Brussels, 1596.  Microfilm from series:  Manuscripta, microfilms of rare and out of print books, list 24, no. 14.

Hurault, Jacques d’, fl. 1588.  Politicke, moral and martial discourses.  Written in French by M. Jacques Hurault, lord of Vieul and of Marais, and one of the French kings Privie councell.  Dedicated by the author to the French-kings Majestie.  And translated into English by Arthur Golding.  London, Printed by Adam Islip, 1595.
MiU (London, 1595); OCU (London, 1595); ICN (London, 1595); IU (London, 1595); IaU (London, 1595); MiU, Film University microfilms no. 14808, case 42, carton 249, short-title catalogue no. 14000 (London, 1595).

Mendoza, Bernardino de, 1540 or 41-1604.  Theorica y pratica de guerra, escrita al principe don Felipe nuestro señor ...  Madrid, Por la viuda de P. Madrigal, 1595.
ICN, Case U 2 .559 (Madrid, 1595); MiU, U101 .M54 1596 (Antwerp, 1596); Italian editions:  ICU, U101.M53 (Venice, 1596); MnU (Venice, 1596); MiU (Venice, 1602); ICN, Case U 2 .568 (Venice, 1616); English editon:  ICN, Case U 2 .56 ([London], 1597); German edition:  MiU (Frankfurt, 1617); ICN, Case U 2 .564 (Frankfurt, 1625).
Comments:  “The author, who had served under Alva, gives a clear account of that general’s system.”  Cockle.  “Written after his retirement to a monastery because of total blindness, after thirty-years’ service.”  Spaulding.  English translator’s [Sir Edward Hoby, 1560-1617] dedication in Spanish:  “The authors epistle to Don Philip, prince of Castill,” dated Madrid, 1594.  “Censure” dated Madrid, 1595.  English edition at ICN with autograph of George Carew, 1597.  Binding stamped with Beaufoy crest.  Bookplate of Henry B. H. Beaufoy.

Rantzau, Henrik, 1526-1598.  ... Commentarius bellicus, libris sex distinctus, praecepta, consilia, et strategemata, pugnae terrestris ac naualis, ex variis eruditorum collecta scriptis, complectens ...  Frankfurt, Apud Z. Palthenium, 1595.
ICN, Case U 0 .733 (Frankfurt, 1595); MiU (Frankfurt, 1595).

Romano, Bartolomeo.  Proteo militare-diviso in tre libri.  Nel primo si descrive la fabrica di detto proteo ...  Nel secondo, e terzo si tratta dell’uso di detto istrumento.  Naples, [G. I.] Carlino & [A.] Pace, 1595.
ICN, Case U 205 .755 (Naples, 1595); MiU (Naples, 1595).
Comments:  Mathematical instruments, military engineering and nautical instruments.

Smythe, Sir John, 1534?-1607.  Instructions, observations, and orders mylitarie.  Requisite for all chieftaines, captaines, and higher and lower men of charge, and officers to understand, knowe, and observe.  Composed by Sir John Smithe, Knight, 1591.  And now imprinted, 1595.  London, by Richard Johnes, 1595.
MiU (London, 1595); MiU Film University microfilms no. 15527, case 67, carton 399, short-title catalogue no. 22885 (London, 1595); MiU Film University microfilms no. 13478, case 71, carton 421, short-title catalogue no. 22885+ (London, 1594).
Comments:  With his Certain discourses ... concerning the formes and effects of divers sorts of weapons, London, 1590.

1596
Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.  Justi Lipsi Polioceticun; sive, De machinis, tormentis, telis, libri quinque.  Ad historiarum lucem.  Cum privilegiis Caesareo & Regio. Antwerp, ex officina Platiniana, apud viduam, & I. Moretum, 1596.
ICJ (Antwerp, 1596); MnU (Antwerp, 1596); ICN (Antwerp, 1596); MiU (Antwerp, 1596); MiU (Antwerp, 1599); IaU, JC 145 L7 1599 (Antwerp, 1599); WU (Antwerp, 1599); MiU (Antwerp, 1599); ICN, Case Y 682 .L66 no.1 (Antwerp, 1604); MiU (Antwerp, 1604); IaU (Antwerp, 1610); IaU (Antwerp, 1625); ICU (Antwerp, 1630); IaU (Antwerp, 1630); OClW (Lyons, 1589); MnU (Lyons, 1590); MiU (Lyons, 1590); ICN (Lyons, 1590); IEN 321 L767p (Lyons, 1590); IaU (Lyons, 1592); IU (Lyons, 1592); MiU (Lyons, 1594); ICU (Lyons, 1628); MiU, JC 145 .L7 1690 (Lyons, 1690); OU, JC 145 LC 1615 (Frankfurt, 1615); ICJ (Amsterdam, 1632).

Lodoño, Sancho de.  El discurso sobre la forma de reduzir la disciplina militar.  A meior y antiguo estado por Don Sancho de Londoño ...  Brussels, En casa de Roger Velpius, 1596; microfilm copy, n.p., 1961.
ICN, Film 15-24 no. 14a (Brussels, 1596; n.p., 1961).
Comments:  Original in Vatican (Biblioteca vaticana).  Bound with Escalante, Bernadino de, Dialogos ..., Brussels, 1595.  Microfilm from series:  Manuscripta, microfilms of rare and out of print books, list 24, no. 14a.

Roscius, Julius.  Julli Rocii Hortini Elogia militaria ...  Rome, Aup Jo. Angelum Ruffinellum, Typis Bartholomaei Bonfadini, 1596.
ICN, Case U 01 .756 (Rome, 1596).
Comments:  Military and naval biography.

1597
Flamand, Claude, b. 1570?.  La guide des fortifications et conduitte militaire, ou sont contems sept livres de mathematique, & geometrie, contenant ce qu’est le plus necessaire, pour l’utilité de la vie humaine ...  Par Claude Flamand ...  Montbeliard, Par Jaques Foillet, 1597.
MiU, UG 400 .F58 (Montbeliard, 1597); WU (Montbeliard, 1597); IU RBC, Fletcher (Montbeliard, 1611); German edition:  MiU (Mümpelgardt [Montbeliard], 1612).
Comments:  The German edition is a translation of the Montbeliard 1611 edition.

Lorini, Buonaiuto, ca. 1540-ca. 1611.  Delle fortificationi di Buonaiuto Lorini ... libri cinque, ne’quali si nostra con le piu facili regole a scienza con la pratica, di fortificare le città, & altri luoghi sopra diversi siti, con tutti gli avvertimenti, che per intelligenza de tal materia possono occorrere ...  Nuovamente dati in luce.  Venice, Gio. Antonio Rampazetto, 1597.
MiU (Venice, 1597); WU (Venice, 1597); MnU (Venice, 1609), WU (Venice, 1609); German edition:  MiU, UG 400 .L875 1621 (Frankfurt, 1621)
Comments:  Venice, 1597 book at MiU and WU is only book five of six books.  1609 and 1621 editions include all six books of this work.  German 1621 edition also includes:  Das sechste Buch, von der Fortification ...  Oppenheim, Gedruckt bey H. Gallern, 1616.  Bound at the end are 21 plates illustrating infantry drill and tactics, apparently from an edition of J. Jacobi von Wallhausen’s Kriegskunst zu Fuss.

1598
Barret, Robert.  The theorike and practike of moderne warres.  London, William Ponsonby, 1598.
MiU (London, 1598).

Busca, Gabriello, ca. 1540-1605.  Della espugnatione et difesa delle fortezze.  Libri due.  Di nuovo dall’autore correti, & ampliati; con l’aggionta di molti capitoli, & figure di più, che nella prima edittione.  Aggiontovi nel fine l’instruttione de’ Bombardieri, pur dell’istesso autore:  con le figure, et espositione delle cose più utili, ...  Turin, Gio. Dominico Tarino, 1598.
MiU (Turin, 1598); ICN, Case 5A 182 (Turin, 1598); MnU (Turin, 1598); ICN (Turin, 1585).
Comments:  ICN (Turin, 1598) edition contains annotations in ink throughout.  “Son of a founder of artillery employed by the state of Milan, (Gabrio) Busca was employed as military architect and engineer at the Savoy Court from 1570 to 1594.”  Pollak.  First edition 1581.

Capobianco, Alessandro.  Corona e palma militare di artiglieria, nella quale si tratta del’inventione di essa, e dell’operare nelle fattioni da terra, e mare, fucchi artificiati da giuoco, e guerra; d’un nuovo instrumento per misurare distanze ...  Venice, G. A. Rampazetto, 1598.
MnU (Venice, 1598); ICN, Case fU 0 .032 (Venice, 1602); MiU (Venice, 1602).

Gentilini, Eugenio.  Instruttione di artiglieri ... dove si contiene la esamina usata dallo strenuo Zaccaria Schiavina, con una gionta dell’auttore ... et un discorso fatte dal medesimo sopra la fortezze.   Trattando con il Capitan Marino Gentilini ...  Venice, Appresso Francesco de’ Fraceschi Senese, 1598.
ICN (Venice, 1598).

Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.  Analecta sive observationes reliquae ad militiam.  Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1598.
MiU (Antwerp, 1598).

Lipsius, Justus.  De militia Romana.  Editio nova.  Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1598.
MiU (Antwerp, 1598); MiU (Antwerp, 1614).

Scarion, Bartolomé, fl. 1598.  Doctrina militar.  En la qual se trata de los principios y causas porque fue hallada en el mundo la milicia ...  Lisbon, P. Crasbeeck, 1598.
ICN, Case U 2 .787 (Lisbon, 1598).