CONDOTTIERE

kōndōt-tyāˈrā [Ital.,=leader], leader of mercenary soldiers in Italy in the 14th and 15th cent., when wars were almost incessant there. The condottieri hired and paid the bands who fought under them. They dealt directly with the cities or states that requested their services and were responsible solely to them. They fought for the highest bidder, passing easily from one lord to another; this game proved dangerous and even fatal to more than one. Some condottieri had small states of their own, either inherited or acquired. The most famous were the Attendolos (founders of the Sforza family), Colleoni, Carmagnola, and Sir John de Hawkwood.

See studies by J. J. Deiss (1966) and G. Trease (1971).

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The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Book by David Rundle; Westview Press, 1999
Subjects: Renaissance--Encyclopedias
...the mythology surrounding the artist. condottiere Italian mercenary commander. Soldiers...15th centuries. The prestige that a condottiere could receive could be impressive...Montefeltro, who hired himself out as a condottiere , simply secured and augmented his patrimony...
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The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction
Book by Ray B. Browne, Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr.; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2000
Subjects: Detective And Mystery Stories, American--History And Criticism, Detective And Mystery Stories, English--History And Criticism, Historical Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Historical Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Literature And History--Great Britain--History, Literature And History--United States--History
...dealings of Duke Guido of Montano with the condottiere Il Lupo in Dirge for a Doge . In this...altogether too dangerous an activity for a condottiere. They might, from time to time, be...In peace, you are plundered by them condottiere , in war, by your enemies" XII . In...
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Perspectives on Western Art - Vol. 2
Book by Linnea H. Wren; Harper Collins, 1994
Subjects: Art--History
...which were central to the condottieres concept of virtu . Because...1488 . Less successful as a condottiere was Ercole I dEste. Ercole...papacy. His performance as a condottiere was less than brilliant...though he was mediocre as a condottiere, Ercole was distinguished...
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Scholars and Gypsies: An Autobiography
Book by Walter Starkie; University of California Press, 1963
Subjects: Starkie, Walter--1894-
...remote eyrie of Pefiiscola. The poet- condottiere , as Regent of Camaro, would live his...but one that would enable the poet-condottiere to dominate the masses. Music, he...in September 1920 to join the poet- condottiere. "I expected," he said, "to find...
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The Modern Prince: And Other Writings
Book by Antonio Gramsci; Lawrence and Wishart, 1957
Subjects: Communism, Communism--Italy, Social Sciences
...element is embodied in the person of a condottiere , representing plastically and "anthropomorphically...the symbol of a leader, the ideal condottiere ; but the emotional, mythical elements...characteristic: after having presented the ideal condottiere, Machiavelli, in a passage of great...
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journal articles on: Condottiere  - 28 results

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Visibilis et Invisibilis: The Mistress in Italian Renaissance Court Society
Journal article by Helen S. Ettlinger; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 47, 1994
Subjects: Italy--History, Mistresses--History, Renaissance--History
...Unknown: Aura, m. Bernardino Ubaldini, condottiere Federigo, b. 1422: mother? Elisabetta...Sforzina 143 5-1492, legit. 1448, condottiere for Venice with uncle Alessandro Sforza...Tristanus, 1429-1477, legitimated 1448, condottiere, m. Beatrice dEste, widow of Count...
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Machiavelli's 'Art of War': A Reconsideration
Journal article by Marcia L. Colish; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: Art of War (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Machiavelli, Niccolo--Bibliography, Military art and science--Bibliography
...past and present, the profession of condottiere. He, and they, were mercenary captains...criticize the Medici obliquely by choosing a condottiere interlocutor whose family had been locked...with Paolo Orsini. Noting that this condottiere had once served Florence, he remarks...
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Leonardi Bruni, Florentine Traitor? Bruni, the Medici, and an Aretine Conspiracy of 1437
Journal article by Arthur Field; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: Bruni, Leonardo--Political activity, Humanists--Political activity, Intellectuals--Political activity
...proceeding will be for Malatesta and another condottiere, Cristoforo da Tolentino, to send...101, 176-77, 190-91. 105 The condottiere Cristoforo da Tolentino, a son of Niccolo...Bartolo had been in the house of the condottiere Berardino della Carda and had planned...
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Did Simone Serdini ('Il Saviozzo') Really Commit Suicide?
Journal article by Alexander Murray; Medium Aevum, Vol. 79, 2010
Subjects: Poets--Biography, Serdini, Simone--Biography
...under the rule of the condottiere Tartaglia da Lavello...Carlo Fortebraccio, a famous condottiere. Gambino would remain sporadically...returned with him to the condottieres family stronghold at Montone...been an equally ambitious condottiere and, like him, Carlo aspired...
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Pope Eugenius IV and Jewish Money-Lending in Florence: The Case of Salomone Di Bonaventura during the Chancellorship of Leonardo Bruni
Journal article by Andrew Gow, Gordon Griffiths; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 47, 1994
Subjects: Businessmen--15th century, Florence, Italy--15th century, Jews--Italy, Religion and law--15th century
...way as it contracted with the head (condottiere) of a body of soldiers. Indeed, the...century, to Niccolo Fortebracclo, the condottiere whom he had recently appointed to serve...Eugenius sent Giovanni Vitelleschi, the condottiere-bishop who had shown such prowess...
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An Unsung Villain: The Reputation of a Condottiere: Stephen Cooper Describes How John Hawkwood, a Tanner's Son from Essex, Became a Mercenary in Late Fourteenth-Century Italy, and after His Death Acquired a Reputation as a First-Class General and as a Model of Chivalry
Magazine article by Stephen Cooper; History Today, Vol. 56, January 2006
Subjects: Hawkwood, John--Behavior, Italian history, 476-1492, Mercenaries--Behavior, Mercenary troops--Behavior, Uccello, Paolo--Works
An Unsung Villain: The Reputation of a Condottiere: Stephen Cooper Describes How John Hawkwood, a Tanners Son from Essex, Became a Mercenary in Late Fourteenth-Century Italy...
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Brazil: The Persistence of Inequality
Magazine article by José Luiz Fiori; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 28, 1995
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...will grease the wheels of his neoliberal economic agenda, positioning himself -- in Jose Luiz Fioris words -- as the " condottiere of the industrial bourgeoisie." Revealing his commitment to fiscal budget cuts, Cardoso vetoed a measure passed by Congress...
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The Pope in the Palace: The Alexander Cycle, Siena
Magazine article by Andrew Martindale; History Today, Vol. 45, February 1995
Subjects: Alexander III, Pope--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500, Popes--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Schism--History, Siena, Italy--Churches, mosques, synagogues, etc.
...beneath a canopy decked out with political emblems and colours, is greeted by the Sienese patron saints. Opposite, the condottiere Guidoriccio da Fogliano represents the armed might of Siena, adjacent to captured and subject neighbouring cities. Beneath...
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The Human Race: Success or Failure?
Magazine article by Paul Johnson; New Criterion, Vol. 25, November 2006
Subjects: Human ecology--Analysis, Humanity--Analysis, Humanity--Social aspects, Survival skills--Analysis, Survival skills--Social aspects
...by the crown--and used for war--or distributed among the secular nobility, mostly soldiers, and epitomized by the condottiere Earl of Pembroke who drove out the pious nuns of Wilton at the point of his sword, shouting: "Out, out, ye whores...
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Raphael at the National Gallery
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 285, December 2004
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Criticism and interpretation, Art, Italian--Exhibitions, Art--Criticism and interpretation, Art--Exhibitions, Italian art--Exhibitions, National Gallery (United Kingdom)--Exhibitions, Raphael (Painter)--Criticism and interpretation, Raphael (Painter)--Exhibitions
...Santi, who had already planned the future of his only son. Giovanni Santi was court-painter to Frederigo da Montefeltro, condottiere Duke of Urbino, a one-eyed warrior-scholar whose broken-nosed profile was depicted by Piero della Francesca; the...
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The Law and War; Are We at War?
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 26, 2004
...between a state and non-state actor. Indeed, the modern laws of war began to develop at a time when private companies of condottiere often participated in combat, both on behalf of and against sovereign states. Moreover, since World War II, most wars...


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Medici, Giovanni De' , 1498–1526, Italian Condottiere
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MEDICI, GIOVANNI DE , 1498 1526, Italian condottiere or Giovanni delle Bande Nere jovan ne del la ban da na ra Ital.,=of the black bands, 1498 1526, Italian condottiere; great-grandson of Lorenzo de Medici (d. 1440, brother of Cosimo...
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Condottiere
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CONDOTTIERE kondot-tya ra Ital.,=leader, leader of mercenary soldiers in Italy in the 14th and 15th cent., when wars were almost incessant...
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Sforza
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1369 1424, a farmer from the Romagna who became a noted condottiere and took the surname Sforza the forcer. He fought in the...Giovanni de Medici, she bore a son who became the famous condottiere Giovanni delle Bande Nere (see Medici, Giovanni de...
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Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...cultural output. The wars were generally fought in a desultory manner by hired bands led by professional commanders (see condottiere ). Compared to the Black Death, the plague that ravaged Italy in 1348, the local wars did little harm. Material prosperity...
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Hawkwood, Sir John De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...although it is not known when or where. With his "white company" of mercenaries, he entered (1362) Italy and became a condottiere . He served sometimes one republic, sometimes another, but he was employed most regularly by Florence, where he died...
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