Pietro Monte's Collectanea

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 o...