"Distinctions of Mid-Late 16th C. Italian Dress?" Topic
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The Beast Rampant | 01 Aug 2017 1:01 p.m. PST |
There are images abound of Italian foot troops before and during The Great Italian Wars, but *after* is a whole other animal. Can anyone here point me to any pics, or give me any notion, of the distinctions of dress and equipment of Italian infantry in the second half of the 16th century? |
cplcampisi | 03 Aug 2017 6:40 p.m. PST |
Look for Cesare Vecellio's costume book (circa 1590). Some plates are shown at the bottom of this page: link But, not all of the costumes depicted were contemporary, some were from earlier times -- the descriptions in the book explain this. |
Druzhina | 05 Aug 2017 3:29 p.m. PST |
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1ngram | 06 Aug 2017 3:42 a.m. PST |
The gaping hole is, of course, the never written second book by Ian Heath on Renaissance Armies. His books on Ancient, Dark Age and Medieval armies are invaluable to the Wargamer but he only wrote one on the Armies of the Sixteenth Century, his "The Armies of England, Scotland,Ireland, the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands", before he went off into Asian Armies of the Nineteenth Century. For years, decades, I waited for the publication of a book by him on "The Armies and Enemies of the Emperor: The Armies of Germany, France, Italy and the Ottomans in the 16th Century", to go along with his earlier volume but, it would appear, he never wrote it. Has no one, really, every written something to supercede George Gush's ""Renaissance Armies"? |
Druzhina | 08 Aug 2017 2:33 a.m. PST |
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Druzhina | 11 Aug 2017 10:42 p.m. PST |
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