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\nhttp://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap/3099  \nThis thesis is made available online and is protected by original copyrightPlease scroll down to view the document itself.  \nPlease refer to the repository record for this item for information to help you tocite it.Our policy information is available from the repository home page.  \nTHE ROAD TO NAPLES.  \nFLORENCE,THE BLACK BANDS AND THE ARMY OFTHE LEAGUE OF COGNAC(1526-1528)  \nby  \nMaurizio Arfaioli  \nA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degreeof Doctor of Philosophy in History  \nUniversity of Warwick,Department of History  \nSeptember 2001  \n.  \n‘…fit rumor in astris  \net montagnarum culmina celsa tonant.  \nNumquid erunt Sguiceri?Numquid Vascona canaia?Numquid gens verbis Italiana bravis?Ista Todescorum numquid plebs apta bocalo?Mandat descalzos num quoque Spagna suos?'  \nTeofilo Folengo(1491-?),Moschaea T.II,vv.40-44  \nTo my family.  \nCONTENTS  \nI  \nAcknowledgements  \nII  \nAbstract  \nI  \nList of illustrations  \nV  \nList of abbreviations  \n1  \nIntroduction  \nChapter I.Between Narrative and Document  \n1.The Invention of History:Giovanni of the Black Bands  \n6  \n2.The Pike and the Arquebus:Niccolò Machiavelli against Giovanni de'Medici20  \n3.The Origins of the Black Bands35  \nChapter II.From 'Renaissance'to 'Mannerism':the Last Phase of the Italian  \nWars  \n50  \n1.Infantry:the 'scaramucciatore archibugiero'  \n70  \n2.Cavalry  \n3.The Living,the Dead,the Seafarers  \n82  \nChapter III.'In dispecto tuo Christo':Florence's Mercenaries  \n1.The 'Reformation'of a Fighting Force:the 'Seditious'Black Bands  \n101  \n2.On to Naples:the Taming of the Black Bands134  \n3.Short Wages and Expensive Shoes154  \nChapter IV.The 'Felicissima Lega':Florence's Allies  \n1.In the Emperor's Talon:Florentine Diplomacy  \n179  \n2.'Battaglie di maledetto senno'.The Debates in the Consulta  \n196  \n3.Cortigiani and Commissari:Lautrec's Descent  \n224  \nChapter V.The Siege of Naples  \n1.Bastions and Galleys:Naples'Blockade  \n253  \n2.Caldi insuportabili et malattie infinite':the Struggle for Naples  \n275  \n3.The Defeat  \n299  \n328  \nConclusion.The Broken Lance  \nAppendices:  \n1.The Incursion against Monterotondo  \n336  \n2.The Battle of Capo d'Orso339  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  \nI am particularly grateful to my supervisors Prof.Michael Mallett and Dr.HumfreyButters for the guidance and for the freedom they gave me during my attempts to find away through so many difficulties,uncertainties and possibilities.Their supervision andthe doctoral courses of the Graduate School of History made my years of study at theUniversity of Warwick the most intellectually challenging period of my life up to now.  \nI want to thank Prof.Ann Katherine Isaacs,Dr.Arturo Pacini,Prof.Teresa Carusoand Dr.Antonella Grati of the Università di Pisa,for their wise and friendly assistanceduring my research stay in Italy,and Prof.Adriano Prosperi,also from the Università diPisa,for his personal support.I am indebted also to the staffs of the Archivi di Stato ofFlorence,Venice,Modena,and Mantua,of the Museo Stibbert and of the BibliotecaNazionale of Florence.  \nI would like also to acknowledge the support of Prof.Renata Pilati of the SocietàNapoletana di Storia Patria and of Dr.Federico Marcucci of the Università di Urbino,who,following my request,searched for and found the manuscript book ofGiovambattista da Messina.  \nFor their help in a surprising range of ways,thanks are also due to all thosefriends who,in Italy and in Great Britain,have patiently supported and endured me,andin particular to my fellow research student Ms.Angela McShane,to Mr.MassimilianoTarrini of the Archaeological Society of Chianni(Pisa),who let me speak so much andso frequently about my research topic,and to Neil Adams M.B.E.,who allowed me topractice judo with him and other champions in his club in Coventry.  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