PELLICIARI, Bartolomeo.

Avertimenti militari, del colonnello Bartholomeo Pelliciari da Modona. Utili, & necessarii a tutti gli officii che possono essere essercitati in un formato essercito, principiando dal soldato privato, et ascendendo per ordine fino al carico del capitano generale.

Modona, Gio. Maria Verde, 1600. Small 4to (205 x 155 mm), pp. [xxxvi], 306, [2, errata]; a few spots on the title; bound with another work (see below) in contemporary vellum, with green silk ties and the spine lettered in ink, ‘Bartolomei Pelliciari / Avertimenti Militari’; covers slightly bowed, but a very good copy, from the library at Donaueschingen with its stamp on the verso of the title. First edition. A guide to military matters by an Italian colonel, who is one of the authors considered by Julian Corbett in his investigation of the origins of this rank. Corbett questioned the traditional belief that its name derived from the officer who commanded the ‘colonello’, or ‘little column’, that marched before the regiment and notes that Pelliciari, ‘in treating of the colonel of a regiment, tells us he usually had a company reserved to him and gives a full account of its constitution, but he does not say it was called a colonello; and what makes it still more probable that it was the officer who gave his name to the company, not the company to the officer, is, that sometimes a regiment was called in Italy a conellato, a word that in appearance is a contraction of colonellato’ (‘The colonel and his command’, American Historical Review 2, 1896, p. 9).Cockle 588. Not in Adams.Bound with this copy is Joachim Camerarius, Politicorum et oeconomicorum Aristotelis interpretationes et explicationes, Frankfurt, Andreas Wechel, 1581, pp. [viii], 332, [12], 117, [2], [1, blank] (Adams C442).

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