[515] No reliance can be placed on the document given in Libri’s Hist. des Sciences Mathém. en Italie, iv. 487, which states that there were cannon and iron shot in Florence on the 11th February 1326. Libri was expelled from the French Academy, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in 1850 for falsifying and selling public documents which he had stolen from various institutions.
[516] Napoleon III., i. 358.
[517] Beringuccio calls iron shot “cosa nova all’ uso della guerra; perchè non prima (che io sappi) furono vedute palle di ferro in Italia per tirarle con artiglierie, che quelle che ci condusse Carlo Re di Franchia contra Re Ferdinando l’anno 1495.”—Pyrotechnia, Venice, 1559, p. 247.
[518] MSS. germ, qu., 1018.
[519] Meynert’s Gesch. des Kriegswesens, &c., Vienna, 1868, i. 378.
[520] A Rege ipso institutum; Heidenstein, De Bell. Moscovito, 1588, p. 40. They were in use in Denmark in 1592. Blom’s Kristian d. IV.’s Artilleri, p. 266.
[521] Geneva, 1645, p. 303.
[522] De Re Militari, Verona, 1472, lib. 10, c. iv. p. 267.
[523] Napoleon III., iii. 80.
[524] Mr. J. Burtt, in Archæol. Journal, xix. 68.