Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
From the fifteenth century hence, most "condottieri" were landless Italian nobles who had chosen the profession of arms as livelihood; the most famous of such mercenary captains was the son of Caterina Sforza, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, from Forlì, known as "The Last Condottiere"; his son was Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany; besides noblemen, "princes" also fought as condottieri, given the sizable income to their estates, notably Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini, and Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino; despite war-time inflation, soldier's pay was high: