Imprese, stratagemi, et errori militari / di m. Bernardin Rocca Piacentino, detto Il Gamberello ; diuise in tre libri, nelle quali discorrendosi con essempi, tratti dall'historie de' Greci, & de' Romani, s'ha piena cognition de'termini, che si possono usar nelle guerre, cose di terra, come di mare, con due tauole, l'una de'capitoli, & l'altra delle cose più notabili ; è questa, secondo l'ordine da noi posto, la quarta [i.e nona] Gioia, congiunta all'anella della nostra Collana historica.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rocca, Bernardino, 1515-1587.

Contributor:

Porcacchi, Thomaso, approximately 1530-1585?

Giolito de' Ferrari, Gabriele, printer.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--Early works to 1800.

Military art and science.

History.

History, Military.

Rome--History, Military--Early works to 1800.

Rome.

Greece--History--Early works to 1800.

Greece.

Rome (Empire).

Penn Provenance:

Perkins, G. Holmes (donor)

Sixth Duke of Portland, William Arthur (bookplate)

Physical Description:

60 unnumbered pages, 477 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de'Ferrari, 1566.

Notes:

From the "Collana Greca" of Giolito's "Collana storica degli scrittori greci e latini," published throughout most of the 16th century. At least the Collana Greca was edited by Tomasso Porcacchi. Cf. Grässe, II, p. 214, and Haym, I, p. 1 ff. See also Porcacchi's dedicatory epistle for this title, p. [25], 1st count.

Edited by Tomasso Porchacchi. Cf. BM STC Italian and Marshall.

Signatures: *⁴ b-g⁴ h² A-2G⁸.

Woodcuts: device; initials; head- and tail-pieces.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Errata on p. [57]-[59], 1st count.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

With: Rocca, Bernardino. La seconda[-terza] parte del gouerno della militia. In Vinetia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito di Ferrarii, 1570.

Imperfect: pages 341-348 (Y3-Y6), 417-420 (2D1-2D2) and 429-432 (2D7-2D8) wanting.

Ms. notes on final paste-down endpaper.

Cited in:

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600 558

Marshall, R.G. STC Italian III, p. 33

Haym, N.F. Bib. italiana (1803 ed.), I, p. 21, no. 5

Kelso, R. English gentleman 768a

OCLC:

82730092