condottiere
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Is he not the famous Bianchetti, a condottiere employed by the people, as the condottieri once were by the kings and nobles?
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
The earliest writers on the new tactics necessitated by villainous saltpetre were Italians trained in condottiere warfare.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
It is old Gattamelata, the condottiere of the Venetian forces in the long wars with Padua.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
He had died at eighty, as lusty and hard and sound an old condottiere as any other professional fighter who bestrode a bronze horse in an Italian piazza.
From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield
The subjects of the three panels represent the entry into Jerusalem, and scenes from the stirring times in which the great condottiere played so prominent a part.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
Xenophon became in essence a mercenary lord, somewhat like the condottieri of Renaissance Italy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The chosen electors went about that serious task with all the noble intent and show of national interest of a group of condottieri.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like the humanist condottieri of 15th century Italy, they built themselves impregnable and magnificent castles.
From Time Magazine Archive
This man, as I said, having been named by the Syracusans commander of their armies, immediately realized that mercenary forces were useless, since their condottieri were men like our Italian condottieri.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
As a result, these condottieri have conducted Italy into slavery and disgrace.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
