The Arte of Warre
The Table of Certain Principall Thinges, Contained in This Woorke of Machiavel
IN THE FIRSTE BOOKE
Why a good man ought not to exersise warfare as his arte
Deedes of armes ought to be used privatly in time of peace for exersise, and in time of warre for necessetie and renoume
The strength of an armie is the footemen
The Romaines renued their Legions and had men in the flower of their age
Whether men of armes ought to be kept
What is requisete for the preparyng of an armie
Out of what contrie souldiers ought to be chosen
Souldiers ought to bee chosen, by thaucthoritie of the Prince, of suche men as be his oune subjectes
The difference of ages, that is to be taken in the chosinge of souldiours for the restoring of an olde power and for the making of a newe
The weapons or power that is prepared, of the naturall subjectes, of a common weale bringeth profit and not hurte
What cause letted the Venetians, that they made not a Monarchi of the worlde
How an armie maye bee prepared in the countrie, where were no exersise of warre
The custome that the Romaines used, in the chosyng of their souldiours
The greater number of men is best
Whether the multitude of armed men ar occation of confusion and of dissorder
How to prohibite, that the Capitaines make no discension
IN THE SECONDE BOOKE
What armour the antiquetie used
The occation of the boldenes of the duchemen
Whiche maner of armyng menne is better either the Duche or Romaine fasion
Diverse examples of late dayes
An example of Tigran
Whether the footemen or the horsemen ought to bee estemed moste
The cause whie the Romaines were overcome of the parthians
What order, or what vertue maketh, that footemen overcum horsemen
Howe the antiquitie exersised their men to learne them to handle their weapons
What the antiquitie estemed moste happie in a common weale
The maner, of maintainyng the order
What a legion is, of Grekes called a Falange, and of Frenchemen Catterva
The devision of a legion, and the divers names of orders
The order of batellraye, and the manner of appoincting the battels
How to order, CCCC.L. men to doo some severall feate
The fation of a battaile that the Suisers make like a crosse
What carriages the Capitaines ought to have, and the number of carriages requisite to every band of men
Diverse effectes caused of diverse soundes
Whereof cometh the utilitie, and the dissorder of the armies that are now a daies
The manner of arminge men
The number of carriages that men of armes and lighte horsemen ought to have
IN THE THIRDE BOOKE
The greatest dissorder that is used now a dayes in the orderinge of an armie
How the Romaines devided their armie in Hastati, Principi and Triarii
The manner that the Romaines used to order them selves agayne in the overthrow
The custom of the Greekes
A maine battaile of Suissers
How manie legions of Romaine Citesens was in an ordinarie armie
The manner how to pitche a fielde to faighte a battaile
Of what number of faighting men an armie oughte to be
The description of a battaile that is a faighting
An exsample of Ventidio faighting against the Parthians
An example of Epaminondas
How the Artillerie is unprofitable
How that a maine battaile of Suissers cannot ocupie more then fower pikes
How the battailes when thei cum to be eight or ten, maye be receyved in the verie same space, that received the fyve
The armes that the Standarde of all tharmie ought to have
Divers examples of the antiquetie
IN THE FOWERTH BOOKE
Whether the fronte of the armie ought to bee made large
To how many thinges respecte ought to be had, in the ordringe of an armie
An example of Scipio
In what place a Capitain maie order his armie with savegarde not to be clene overthrowen
Aniball and Scipio praised for the orderynge of their armies
Cartes used of the Asiaticans
Diverse examples of the antiquitie
The prudence which the Capitaine ought to use, in the accidence that chaunse in faightinge
What a Capitaine ought to doo, that is the conqueror, or that is conquered
A Capitaine ought not to faighte the battaile, but with advauntage, excepte he be constrained
How to avoide the faightinge of the fielde
Advertismentes that the Capitaine ought to have
Speakyng to souldiers helpeth muche to make them to be curagious and bolde
Whether all the armie ought to bee spoken unto, or onely to the heddes thereof
IN THE FYVETH BOOKE
The manner how to leade an armie gowinge thorough suspected places, or to incounter the enemie
An example of Aniball
Wether any thing oughte to bee commaunded with the voise or with the trompet
The occations why the warres made now a dayes, doo impoverish the conquerors as well as the conquered
Credite ought not to be given to thinges which stand nothinge with reason
The armie ought not to knowe what the Capitaine purposeth to doo
Diverse examples
IN THE SIXTE BOOKE
The maner how to incampe an armie
How brode the spaces and the wayes ought to be within the campe
What waye ought to be used when it is requiset to incampe nere the enemie
How the watche and warde ought to be apoincted in the campe, and what punishmente they ought to have that doo not their dutie
How the Romanies prohibited women to be in their armies and idell games to be used
How to incampe accordinge to the nomber of men, and what nomber of menne maie suffise againste, what so ever enemie that wer
How to doo to be assured, of the fideletie of those that are had in suspition
What a Capitaine ought to doo beinge beseged of his enemies
Example of Coriliano and others
It is requiset chiefly for a Capitain to kepe his souldiers punished and payed
Of aguries
Moste excellent advertismentes and pollicies
The occation of the overthrowe of the Frenchmen at Garigliano
IN THE SEVENTH BOOKE
Cities are strong, either by nature or by industrie
The maner of fortificacion
Bulwarkes ought not to be made oute of a towne distante from the same
Example of Genoa
Of the Countes Catherin
The fation of percullesies used in Almaine
Howe the battelmentes of walles were made at the first, and how thei are made now adaies
The provisions that is mete to bee made, for the defence of a towne
Divers pollicies, for the beseginge and defendinge of a toune or fortres
Secrete conveing of letters
The defence againste a breache
Generall rules of warre