condottiere
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He forgets that he is in the eternal world, and dips for the moment into a brawl in some Italian market-place, or into the council-chamber of some factious condottiere.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana
The execution of the condottiere, Fra Moreale, was an act of ingratitude as well as of treachery.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
Seeing that Bonaparte was then known merely as an able condottiere, not as the re-organizer of French society, Pitt's haughty attitude, though deplorable, is intelligible.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
They seem to have been led by the men of Caen under a Lombard condottiere called Le Grand Jacques, or as the English poem has it:— "Guaunte Jakys a werryour wyse."
From The Story of Rouen by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
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
Xenophon became in essence a mercenary lord, somewhat like the condottieri of Renaissance Italy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Like the humanist condottieri of 15th century Italy, they built themselves impregnable and magnificent castles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
As a result, these condottieri have conducted Italy into slavery and disgrace.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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
