Sources for the Italian Wars 

Web Sites 

Los Tercios españoles [Spanish]

Hungarian and Turkish army lists for Maximilian - Dan O'Hara

Renaissance Wargames Home Page - David Heading

Includes a whole bunch of stuff including some Portuguese History, some Wargaming campaigns and scenarios, some reviews of Wargaming Rules, and issues with DBR lists.    

Early Modern Warfare Society (Curt Johnson) including: 

• EMW: Lanza Gineta: Spanish Light Cavalry of the Early Italian Wars.
• EMW: The French Army of the Early Italian Wars.
• EMW: Extra-Heavy Cavalry (Hombres de Armas) and Infantry of Gonzalo's Italian Armies.

On-line books 

Various works on/by Machiavelli 

• The Prince
• Various, some originals in Italian, some secondary sources

Machiavelli the game 

Avalon Hill have an Italian Wars variant of Diplomacy called "Machiavelli".  

Guide for Diplomacy players 

The MACHiavelli Boardgame Site

Has full colour map variants. 

http://junior.apk.net/~jerkich/machlink.html

Has a black and white map variant.

Books 

Benedetti, A. (1967).  Diaria de bello Carolino: Diary of the Caroline War (D. M. Schullian, Trans.).  New York: Frederick Ungar.  (Original work published 1496). 

Barker, P. (1995).  D.B.R. Army Lists Book 1. Wargames Research Group. Devizes.

Gush, G. (1975).  Renaissance Armies 1480-1650.  Patrick Stephens. 

Jones, M. N. (1994).  “All is lost save honour”: The battle of Pavia, 24 February 1525.  Wargames Illustrated, 81, pp. 21-24. 

Konstam, A. (1996).  Pavia 1525: The Climax of the Italian Wars.  Osprey [Campaign Series 44].  g

Oman, C. (1987).  A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century.  London: Greenhill Books.  Originally published 1937.  

Solid.  

Phipps, J.  (1994).  The battle of Pavia: The Story of a demonstration game.  Wargames Illustrated, 80, pp. 38-40. 

Stevenson, P. (1991).  The battle of Ravenna 11th April 1512.  Wargames Illustrated, 46, pp. 11-14. 

Taylor, F.  (1993).  The art of war in Italy 1494-1529 (originally published 1921).  Essex, UK: Partizan Press. 

Similar in style of Oman (1987), but lacks the depth . 

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