The numbers of the two books !!

Indexes: Of the chapters, Of the names of the characters, Of the places and towns, Of the tables and of the unpublished illustrations, Of the illustrations, Bibliography, Various notes and thanks
Inside this mighty job they find space 53 colour unpublished tables related to the regional maps, to the detailed maps of 10 battles accompanied by rich description and 35 tables devoted to the weapons, to the flags and the uniforms in use in the conflict.
Almost 500 rare and interesting illustrations inserted in the text, often of the XVII period complete the illustration patrimony of the books.

And again different chronological tables or timeline of the treated period regarding the principal military political facts but also related to the circles artistic and scientific.

51 index card deepened on the most important characters and 11 devoted to the great artists of the epoch, well defined and complete analytical indexes a great deal for personality, places, bibliography etc. An elaborate search of graphic pagination. This and very other they make party of the outfit of this important volume devoted to XVII century first destination to 50 years of the modern history of the man. The first one in indefeasible ever written by an Italian writer and certainly among the more suits till now realized on the matter in Europe and in the United States.

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1618-1648 The thirty years war

The war of the 30 years was a funnel conflict From 1618 up to almost halves the XVII century nearly all the most important nations of the world passed through this disaster and were heavily implicated in it.
In Europe only England had not directly involved, but around 1640 also on the island it began that bloody series of wars record as civil wars. The America, as colonies of the Spanish crown, furnished the gold and the silver necessary to the Asburgh to maintain the expensive army and their relative military countries.
The Dutch fleets, those Baltic, English and imperial they were perpetually in these years in clash on the various oceans and sea, who to bring the wealth from the colonies, who to plunder her. In short a big running war.
It was substantially the first true world war. In different measure the preceding conflicts and those following were more also circumscribed and more located above all, just up to the Napoleonic wars, that on the other hand during the half to the great seventeenth-century conflict.

In 1648, after the Peace of Westphalia, modern Europe was born, at the end of an afflicted trial during which, as the ends festive fires of artifice, the many contradictions chas exploded from over one century from the start of the religion Reform.

For the preparation of this writing the author has read and consulted many books, magazines and several sources searches contemplated in internet. He has also been worth of a lot of and interesting ancient and archiving material as the mighty Theatrum Europaeum of Abelinus with the fantastic art cover of the M.Merian, that have been brought in the book in good number. Besides, the Annaleses Ferdinandei and above all the great ones "Historie" of a direct earwitness which was the noble Venetian Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato.The contemporary jobs of the Brusoni are also sued, of the Capriata, of Padre Foresti and of the Montecuccoli. That of the great other historians as: Muratori, Cantù and the Hardion. The work of the Schiller together with the beautiful biography of the Wallenstein of Golo Mann. Still the beautiful novel "a rider's Memories" of W. Defoe. The "works" XIX and XX century of the Oncken and Romolo Quazza. Up to the canonical tomes on the thirty years realized in last century: the text of the Weegwood, Parker, Pagès and Polisensky. The interesting search on the archives realized by Angelo Turchini. And to end, the superb job of the American researcher William Guthrie with his two tomes devoted to the battles of the thirty years war. Incredibly and rich books of data and news regarding the more important military and war aspects among the many happened during the conflict. This work has realized with an enormous costs and an impressive number of times. The author in every case has always work with a lot of enthusiasm in the preparation of this book. Text that proudly we can consider the first great contemporary job in Italian, organically devoted to this important period of the European history.

From the 1° chapter: The alchemic and fantastic emperor.

"There are new discoveries in the hidden sciences? Have you known something of the magnetic stone, of the "asemone", of the eyelashes of the Sun and the Moon? Some people have narrated me that in the temple of St. Vito mysterious fires ignite and move in the dark of the night. In that enigmatic time we live! What marvelous stories are approached! Ah, would want to know the inscrutable Unknown that envelops us and sends us signals." So we can imagine the Rudolph king disquisire with his well known astronomers in his rooms of the Wonder. Just following the undecided politics of the sovereign, with an evident propensity for the hidden sciences, space for the depression was born and taken that would have brought to the war of the thirty years.

Rudolph is born in Vienna at July 18 th 1552. It was child of the tolerant and good emperor Maximilian II of Asburgh that had married his cousin Maria, daughter of Charles V. Insofar Rudolph was doubly nephew of queen Giovanna the Crazy . As the illustrious ancestress, also Rudolph will give signs of disequilibrium toward the last years, and of strangeness and curiosity for the whole lifetime.

It was impassioned for a long time of occultism, alchemy and astrology. Of its sign of the cancer was said that it was saturnine, labyrinthine, mutable, shady and influenceable. In this passion he will be united to the other great neophyte of the subject: Albrecht Wallenstein.