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    Famiano Strada (1572 – 6 September 1649) was an Italian Jesuit and historian of wars in the low countries (Belgium and Netherlands) during the early part...
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  • Italian Jesuit historian Famiano Strada (1572–1649) became popular throughout Europe and was translated into many languages. Strada first published it in...
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    the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (Harper Collins, 2004) p.88 Famiano Strada, Segunda decada de las Guerras de Flandes: desde el principio del govierno...
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    "den Schweiger": Emanuel van Meteren, 1608 and 1614; cf. "Taciturnus": Famiano Strada, 1635. The Dutch historian Robert Fruin (1864) has argued that this...
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    Hellburners at Antwerp by Famiano Strada...
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    Parma nearly died during the attack on his pontoon bridge in 1585. Famiano Strada: Histoire de la guerre des Païs-Bas, 1727....
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    were copied by auditores, others are autographs of masters such as Famiano Strada, Christopher Clavius, Francisco Suarez, Roberto Bellarmino, Mutio Vitelleschi...
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    cavalry and infantry, although they failed to arrive. According to Famiano Strada, the garrison numbered 1,200 soldiers, mostly French, Scottish and English...
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    1648 Leo by Visscher, 1650 Leo by Schenk 1707 A Leo Belgicus map by Famiano Strada, 1648 A Dutch coin of 1753 depicting the Leo Belgicus holding a liberty...
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    Agostino Ramelli, Bonaiuto Lorini, Fausto Veranzio, Mariano Zonca, Famiano Strada, Giovanni Branca. The Italian engineer is often called abroad as a consultant...
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    Agostino Ramelli, Bonaiuto Lorini, Fausto Veranzio, Mariano Zonca, Famiano Strada, Giovanni Branca. The Italian engineer is often called abroad as a consultant...
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    the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (Harper Collins, 2004) p.88 Famiano Strada, Segunda decada de las Guerras de Flandes: desde el principio del govierno...
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    600 Italian and Albanian cavalry, according to the Jesuit historian Famiano Strada, or just 600 infantry and 300 cavalry as claimed by the Spanish chronicler...
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    Via Bartolomeo Platina, Via Camillo Porzio, Via Carlo Sigonio, Via Famiano Strada, Largo Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Via Tommaso da Celano, Via Luigi Tosti...
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  • art collector. He attended the Roman College, where he studied under Famiano Strada, Bernardino Stefonio and Terenzio Alciati. Tronsarelli was the author...
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  • Galileo Galilei, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, nephew of Urban VIII, Famiano Strada, the historian of the Spanish wars in Flanders, Thomas Farnaby, the...
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    collection of more than 3,000 rare books and periodicals, including the Famiano Strada's De Bello Belgico (London: 1650) and John Entick's The General History...
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    Bartoli and the illustrations for De bello belgico (Rome, 1647) of Famiano Strada. Name variations: 'Jan Miele', 'Jan Bicke', 'Jan Bike', 'Cavaliere Giovanni...
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  • Arnhem-Nijmegen Gebrs. E&M Cohen 1882, p. 835 Famiano Strada, Histoire de la guerre de Flandre, de Famianus Strada traduite par P. du Ryer chez Joseph t'Serstevens...
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    Spanish cause in Italy. Cerquozzi would also collaborate on designs of Famiano Strada's De Bello Belgico celebrating Alessandro Farnese's campaigns to recapture...
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    Hellburners against Farnese's pontoon bridge during the siege of Antwerp, 1584–1585. Print from Famiano Strada...
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    recommendation to King Philip II of Spain, who according to the Italian Jesuit Famiano Strada, handsomely rewarded him. The next Spanish success was on 17 November...
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    the second volume of "De Bello Belgico", a work by his fellow Jesuit Famiano Strada's. The "De Bello Belgico" offers a history of the Spanish wars in Flanders...
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    by both armies differs according to the authors. The Italian Jesuit Famiano Strada noted that Farnese, in a letter to his father Ottavio, Duke of Parma...
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    Johann Baptista von Taxis. The left consisted of two cavalry companies (Famiano Strada names German reiters under Wolfgang Prengier, while Alonso Vázquez mentions...
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  • musician and a nightingale that draws upon the Academic Prolusions of Famiano Strada (1617). The same poetic trope was also exploited by Richard Crashaw...
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    translation as Le voyage du prince Don Fernande frère du Roy Philippe IV Famiano Strada, De Bello Belgico Michiel Zachmoorter, Thalamus sponsi, bruydegom's...
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    Valenciennes Part of the Eighty Years' War Capture of Valenciennes from Famiano Strada's De Bello belgico decades duae (reprint 1727). Belligerents Dutch rebels...
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    The Siege of Valenciennes (1567) portrayed in Famiano Strada's De bello belgico decades duae (reprint 1727)...
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  • marginal notes, and annotations, London, 1647; 1660; 1673. Translation of Famiano Strada's De Bello Belgico, or The History of the Low-Countrey Warres, London...
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