The occations why the warres made now a dayes, doo
impoverish the conquerors as well as the conquered,
162
Credite ought not to be given to thinges which stand
nothinge with reason, 164
The armie ought not to knowe what the Capitaine purposeth
to doo, 165
Diverse examples, 167
The maner how to incampe an armie, 175
How brode the spaces and the wayes ought to be within
the campe, 182
What waye ought to be used when it is requiset to
incampe nere the enemie, 184
How the watche and warde ought to be apoincted in
the campe, and what punishmente they ought to have
that doo not their dutie, 186
How the Romanies prohibited women to be in their armies
and idell games to be used, 188
How to incampe accordinge to the nomber of men, and
what nomber of menne maie suffise againste, what so
ever enemie that wer, 191
How to doo to be assured, of the fideletie of those
that are had in suspition, 193
What a Capitaine ought to doo beinge beseged of his
enemies, 194
Example of Coriliano and others, 195
It is requiset chiefly for a Capitain to kepe his
souldiers punished and payed, 197
Of aguries, 197
Moste excellent advertismentes and pollicies, 198
The occation of the overthrowe of the Frenchmen at
Garigliano, 202
Cities are strong, either by nature or by industrie,
205
The maner of fortificacion, 205
Bulwarkes ought not to be made oute of a towne distante
from the same, 207
Example of Genoa, 208
Of the Countes Catherin, 208
The fation of percullesies used in Almaine, 210
Howe the battelmentes of walles were made at the first,
and how thei are made now adaies, 210
The provisions that is mete to bee made, for the defence
of a towne, 212
Divers pollicies, for the beseginge and defendinge
of a toune or fortres, 214
Secrete conveing of letters, 219
The defence againste a breache, 219
Generall rules of warre, 222
OF THE ARTE OF WARRE OF
AND SECRETARIE OF FLORENCE,
LAURENCE PHILIP STROZZE
OF FLORENCE.