Definition of Condottiere. Meaning of Condottiere. Synonyms of Condottiere

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Definition of Condottiere

Condottiere
Condottiere Con`dot*tie"re, n.; pl. Condottieri. [It., captain.] A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

Meaning of Condottiere from wikipedia

- Condottieri (Italian: [kondotˈtjɛːri]; sg.: condottiero or condottiere) were Italian military leaders during the Middle Ages and the early modern period...
- Le Condottière is a posthumous novel by the French writer Georges Perec, originally written between 1957 and 1960, but published in 2012 by the publishing...
- Rutger von Blum or Ruggero Flores, was an Italian military adventurer and condottiere active in Aragonese Sicily, Italy, and the Byzantine Empire. He was the...
- da Terni (16th century): condottiere brothers Anastasio and Stefano Ciancherotti da Terni (16th-17th century): condottiere brothers Blessed brother Barnaba...
- A 17th-century Condottiere, by Artemisia Gentileschi...
- Maria Vitelleschi (1396 – 2 April 1440) was an Italian cardinal and condottiere. Vitelleschi was born in Corneto (modern Tarquinia, then part of the...
- 1453, today in the Piazza del Santo in Padua, Italy. It portrays the condottiere Erasmo da Narni, known as "Gattamelata", who served mostly under the...
- of Francesco I, lord of Padua. John Hawkwood brought 1,100 of his own condottiere (600 cavalry and 500 archers, or vice versa depending on the source)...
- Honorata Rodiana) (1403–1452) was a "semi-legendary" Italian painter and condottiere. She was born at Castelleone near Cremona, and also later died there...
- Arnold/Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-340-73144-4. "Bearded like a medieval condottiere, bluff yet suave, fearless and supple, [Italo Balbo] was not the type...