condottiere

Example Sentences

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Orazio Baglioni, of the semiprincely Perugian family, was a distinguished condottiere.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter

For fighting blood ran in the veins of the Lady of Forl�, she being the grand-daughter of the great condottiere Francesco Sforza.

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)

As a daring and successful "condottiere," he was dear to his liberty-loving contemporaries, who protested against any encroachments from Rome or curtailment of their civil rights by native rulers.

From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.

As for the others, they were clerks, who in one way or another had managed to get their seats—men with no great permanent stake in the community, the modern substitute for the condottiere class.

From The Man Who Wins by Herrick, Robert

He had died at eighty, as lusty and hard and sound an old condottiere as any other professional fighter who bestrode a bronze horse in an Italian piazza.

From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy