Captains of fortune
Subtitle: profiles of six Italian condottieri
Publisher: Crowell
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Condottieri
Description: "This book presents the first detailed account in English of the lives of several of the leading Italian condottieri -- 'captains of fortune' -- based exclusively on Italian sources. Essentially, it is a study of individual acquisition and maintenance of power by force of arms. The time span is three hundred years -- roughly 1200-1500 A.D."--Page 11.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 291-294
Table of contents: title: Foreword: The flavour of history.; title: Son of the devil, Ezzelino da Romano.; title: Prince of the wolfhounds, Castruccio Castracani.; title: Giovanni the sharp, Sir John Hawkwood.; title: Serpent and lion, the Count of Carmagnola.; title: The abominable pagan, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta.; title: Giovanni of the black bands, Giovanni de' Medici