First translation into English of a wide-ranging military treatise from
the late middle ages.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 version, published in Milan in 1509, forms the basis of this
translation. Monte describes the techniques of personal combat with various weapons,
including the two-handed and one-handed sword, pollaxe, and dagger, as well as wrestling,
armored and mounted combat. He also documents the athletic activities used by knights to
hone their physical abilities: running, jumping, throwing, and vaulting. Finally, the
Collectanea is the solemedieval text to provide extensive discussion of the design of arms
and armour. This translation includes an illustrated introduction to Monte and his technical
subject-matter, as well as a translation of Book 5 of Monte's De Dignoscendis Hominibus
(1492), which overlaps much of the technical content of the Collectanea. JEFFREY L. FORGENG
is curator of Arms and Armour and Medieval Art at the Worcester Art Museum, and teaches as
Adjunct Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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• Publication Date: February 16, 2018
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• Print Length: 469 Pages
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