[History/Military] Rocca, Bernardino: Military enterprises, stratagems, and errors. In Venice, Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1568

Format in-8°, mm. 215x160, pp. (60), 477, (3). Contemporary binding in full limp parchment with handwritten titles, silent spine. Printer's mark on the front. Woodcut headpieces, initials and tailpieces. Sporadic foxing.

Edition printed in Venice in 1568 (the first 1566) by Gabriele Giolito da Ferrari. Military stories and anecdotes with the reflections of the author Bernardino Rocca (1515-1587). Divided into 3 books, the text of the treatise provides practical advice on how to wage war both on land and at sea. Lawyer, man of letters, writer on military subjects and priest, Bernardino Rocca, known as Gamberello, wrote this work in 1566, which is among the examples of military treatises inspired by the models of antiquity: Plutarch, Livy, Polybius, Appian, Caesar and others.