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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- A 17th-century Condottiere, by Artemisia Gentileschi...
- 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)...
- title that was granted to Andrea Doria, a famous admiral, statesman and condottiere from the Republic of Genoa, in 1531, along with the lands of the country...
- 6:   ****aigne  –   Columbus, Christopher Volume 6.7:   Columbus  –   Condottiere Volume 6.8:   Conduction, Electric  –   Volume 7.1:   Prependix  –  ...
- Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy. Pen and Sword, 2009. Murphy, David. Condottiere 1300–1500: Infamous Medieval Mercenaries. Oxford: Osprey, 2007. Early...
- who had offended the honour of Erasmus's deceased friend and famous condottiere Andrej Baumkircher of Vipava. Fleeing the vengeance of the Holy Roman...