Machiavelli, Volume I — Niccolo Machiavelli — John Shaqi
Machiavelli, Volume I
Niccolo Machiavelli · en
Of what number of faighting men an armie oughte to be, 110
The description of a battaile that is a faighting, 111
An exsample of Ventidio faighting against the Parthians, 114
An example of Epaminondas, 115
How the Artillerie is unprofitable, 116
How that a maine battaile of Suissers cannot ocupie more then fower
pikes, 120
How the battailes when thei cum to be eight or ten, maye be receyved in
the verie same space, that received the fyve, 123
The armes that the Standarde of all tharmie ought to have, 125
Divers examples of the antiquetie, 126
IN THE FOWERTH BOOKE
Whether the fronte of the armie ought to bee made large, 132
To how many thinges respecte ought to be had, in the ordringe of an
armie, 133
An example of Scipio, 134
In what place a Capitain maie order his armie with savegarde not to be
clene overthrowen, 135
Aniball and Scipio praised for the orderynge of their armies, 135
Cartes used of the Asiaticans, 137
Diverse examples of the antiquitie, 137
The prudence which the Capitaine ought to use, in the accidence that
chaunse in faightinge, 138
What a Capitaine ought to doo, that is the conqueror, or that is
conquered, 140
A Capitaine ought not to faighte the battaile, but with advauntage,
excepte he be constrained, 142
How to avoide the faightinge of the fielde, 144
Advertismentes that the Capitaine ought to have, 146
Speakyng to souldiers helpeth muche to make them to be curagious and
bolde, 146
Whether all the armie ought to bee spoken unto, or onely to the heddes
thereof, 147
IN THE FYVETH BOOKE
The manner how to leade an armie gowinge thorough suspected places, or
to incounter the enemie, 152
An example of Aniball, 156
Wether any thing oughte to bee commaunded with the voise or with the
trompet, 159
The occations why the warres made now a dayes, doo impoverish the
conquerors as well as the conquered, 162
Credite ought not to be given to thinges which stand nothinge with
reason, 164
The armie ought not to knowe what the Capitaine purposeth to doo, 165
Diverse examples, 167
IN THE SIXTE BOOKE
The maner how to incampe an armie, 175
How brode the spaces and the wayes ought to be within the campe, 182
What waye ought to be used when it is requiset to incampe nere the
enemie, 184
How the watche and warde ought to be apoincted in the campe, and what
punishmente they ought to have that doo not their dutie, 186
How the Romanies prohibited women to be in their armies and idell games
to be used, 188
How to incampe accordinge to the nomber of men, and what nomber of menne
maie suffise againste, what so ever enemie that wer, 191
How to doo to be assured, of the fideletie of those that are had in
suspition, 193
What a Capitaine ought to doo beinge beseged of his enemies, 194
Example of Coriliano and others, 195
It is requiset chiefly for a Capitain to kepe his souldiers punished and
payed, 197
Of aguries, 197
Moste excellent advertismentes and pollicies, 198