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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...
- 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...
- A 17th-century Condottiere, by Artemisia Gentileschi...
- was absorbed in these confrontations. Urban's military captain was the condottiere Azzo d'Este, who led a loose league of cities including Mantua and Ferrara...
- Tuscany; thus, Florence arranged a nonaggression pact with the English condottiere John Hawkwood, who was Gregory XI's main military commander, at a cost...
- Eight Saints, he personally commanded troops lent to the papacy by the condottiere John Hawkwood to reduce the small city of Cesena in the territory of...
- In 1403 a force of Genoese soldiers, under the command of the French condottiere Boucicaut, landed at Palaeokastritsa and attacked ... The fortress existed...
- Honorata Rodiana) (1403–1452) was a "semi-legendary" Italian painter and condottiere. She was born at Castelleone near Cremona, and also later died there...