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Definition of Condottiere
1. n. A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.
Definition of Condottiere
1. Noun. A mercenary military leader from 14th century Italy and later in other parts of Europe ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Condottiere
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Condottiere
Literary usage of Condottiere
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"... her eyes to what has been hidden from voluminous and precise historians,
namely, that in him, not a condottiere, but a Roman Emperor had come again. ..."
2. A History of the Commonwealth of Florence: From the Earliest Independence of by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1865)
""War in Romagna—Professed causes, and real causes of these wars—Rise of the
condottiere system—The ..."
3. Outlines for the Study of Art by Harry Huntington Powers, Mary Montague Powers, Louise M. Powe (1907)
"353—II condottiere. Wood: a little under life size: executed 1475. Modeled with
extreme minuteness and perfection and painted with an enamel-like surface ..."
4. The History of the Middle Ages by Victor Duruy (1891)
"Anarchy ; the condottiere —Splendor of Literature and the Arts.—Dante, Petrarch,
Boccaccio. IN the midst of the mighty combat between the two supreme powers ..."
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