Boydell Press Pietro monte's collectanea: the arms, armour and fighting techniques of a fifteenth-century soldier, hardcover/jeffrey l. forgeng

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Description 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 versio.