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Cees Reijner
Early Modern War Narratives and the Revolt in the Low Countries, 04/2020Book Chapter
In the preface of his Las Guerras de los Estados Baxos (The Wars in the Low Countries) the Spanish army officer and chronicler Carlos Coloma de Saa (1573–1637) discusses several Italian historians of the Revolt in the Low Countries.¹ He praises some, such as the Genoese author Pompeo Giustiniani (1569–1616) whom he describes as ‘a warrior of great distinction who fought on our side and a chronicler favouring himself and his country’.² He also refers to an anonymous historian from Naples who wrote a compendium of all wars in the Low Countries, relying to a certain extent, according
