A Bibliography of Military Books up to 1642.

University of California Press 2016, cm.18x26, pp.340, legatura editoriale cartonata con sopraccoperta figurata a colori. Ampia bibliografia e indici in appendice. This book tells the story of the ancient land named Chianti and the modern wine appellation known as Chianti Classico. In 1716, Tuscany&;s penultimate Medici ruler, Cosimo III, anointed the region of Chianti, along with three smaller areas in the Florentine State, as the world&;s first legal appellations of origin for wine. In the succeeding centuries, this milestone was all but forgotten. By the late nineteenth century, the name Chianti, rather than signifying this historic region and its celebrated wine, identified a simple Italian red table wine in a straw-covered flask.