“Non essendo io italiano, e dovendo scrivere in questa lingua”: La génesis de la "Pratica manvale di arteglieria" de Luis Collado (1586)
“Non essendo io italiano, e dovendo scrivere in questa lingua”: the Genesis of the Pratica manvale di arteglieria by Luis Collado (1586)

Summary/Abstract: Luis Collado is the most important author of artillery treaties of the 16th century. His work requires extremely complex research and, so far, it has been studied in a rather superficial way with few exceptions that are cited in this work ? is article aims at explaining a hitherto unresolved question: why, being a Spaniard, did he decide to have the first version of his work published in Italian in Venice in 1586 ? is circumstance becomes even more puzzling when we consider that six years later a substantially enlarged Spanish version of the previous edition was published in Milan, where he served as an engineer also at the time when the Italian version of 1586 was published? The work will demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt that although Collado is the author of the Pratica manvale di arteglieria, he was not the one who wrote the text in Italian, but interpreted his own Spanish manuscript, now lost, and had a native amanuensis to transcribe it? is tortuous path that started with writing a text in Spanish and then interpreting it a vista into Italian, and finally putting it in writing in Italian by a native speaker of the language was a way to promote his military career which developed mainly in Italy, as well as to obtain an economic benefit that would allow him to capitalise on the costs of the Spanish edition.

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