Kammala wannan magana: Lokacin da zamanin Condottieri ya zo ga ƙarshe a ƙasar Italiya, kwamandojin soja kamar Ottavio Piccolomini da Raimondo Montecuccoli sun ba da sojojinsu ga Sarkin Austriya, a cikin yaƙin addini wanda ya lalata Jamus kuma ya haifar da asarar kashi 30% na mutanenta, wataƙila mafi girman bala'in da Jamus ta taɓa jimrewa. Sojojin Italiyanci sun yi yaƙi da jaruntaka (duk da cewa a kan raunin) a yakin Lutzen kuma sun taimaka wajen samun babban nasara a
Yaƙin Nordlingen a shekara ta 1634 a kan 'yan Sweden. Ambrogio Spinola da mutanensa a halin yanzu sun taimaka wa Spain ta ci Netherlands a yaƙe-yaƙe kamar Siege of Breda. Wannan yaƙin na iya zama na ƙarshe wanda aka yi amfani da takobi, wuƙaƙe da kuma pikes sun taka muhimmiyar rawa a yaƙi kamar yadda fasahar makamai ta zama abin dogaro. 'Yan wasan Italiya, masu dauke da makamai masu gajeren takobi da wuƙaƙe sun kasance masu tasiri sosai wajen kutsawa cikin filayen abokan gaba da kuma saukar da marasa tsaro masu dauke da makamai masu tsawo a lokacin mummunan "push of the pikes". A fagen yaƙi abin da ake kira "Spada da Lato" ko takobi na gefe ya zama babban nau'in takobi. A lokaci guda a cikin biranen Italiya, takobi ya zama sabon nau'in takobi, wanda aka yi amfani da shi a cikin farar hula don yin gwagwarmaya. Wannan takobi na farar hula an san shi da "La Striscia" ko Rapier a Turanci. Faransanci ya ɗauki takobin Italiyanci na duel kuma ya mallake shi, kuma an yi imanin cewa tsakanin 1600 AD da 1700 AD fiye da Faransanci 70,000 suka mutu a cikin duels, da yawa daga cikinsu sun ji rauni sosai ta hanyar Rapier. Daga ƙarshen ƙarni na 16, ƙwallon ƙafa na Italiya ya sami babban shahara a duk faɗin Turai, musamman tare da rubutun Salvator Fabris wanda "De lo schermo overo scienza d<unk>arme" na 1606 ya yi tasiri sosai ba kawai a Italiya ba har ma a Jamus. Fabris ya biyo bayan masanan Italiya kamar Nicoletto Giganti (1606), Ridolfo Capo Ferro (1610), Francesco Alfieri (1640), Francesco Antonio Marcelli (1686) da kuma Bondi' di Mazo (1696).