condottiere

Example Sentences

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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 Collins, William Wiehe

Dlugosz brought Olesnicki the red hat from Rome in 1449, and shortly afterwards was despatched to Hungary to mediate between Hunyadi and the Bohemian condottiere Giszkra, a difficult mission which he most successfully accomplished.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

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 Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir

A body of disbanded mercenaries form themselves into the first condottiere company known in Italy.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter

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 Weekley, Ernest