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Vollkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer-, Wasser-, Sturm-Kugeln, Granaten, Pech-Sturm-Kräntze und allerhand Lust und Ernsthaffte Feuerwercke zubereiten. Samt gründlicher Anleitung zur Artillerie
A War Profiteer and Artillery Expert
The author of this book wasn’t just anyone: Sylvius Nimrod went to the Thirty Years’ War as a landless nobleman. When the war was over, he had become Duke of Württemberg-Oels. He wrote down everything he learned during the terrifying sieges of the war in this manual of artillery.
Meistererzählungen
The Works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence
I Cesari in Metallo Grande da Giulio Cesare sino a L. Elio, raccolti nel Farnese Museo. Volume 6
Power, Impotence and a Coin Collection
Whoever published a coin collection used to do so not only for scholarly reasons. Quite the opposite: an extensive coin collection made its owner gain prestige, which could be used for political purposes – that’s what the last members of the Farnese family did.
Pharsalia sive De Bello Civili Caesaris, & Pompeji Libri X
Lucan’s “Civil War”: A Massacre Without God
The almost forgotten civil war epos by Roman prodigy Lucan experienced a renaissance during the Thirty Years’ War. There’s a good reason why Dutchman Hugo Grotius, a pioneer of international law, published an edition of this work.
