When do they start to switch sides to the highest bidder, like condottieri did? |
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These organizations ultimately developed in Italy as condottieri, who offered their services to the highest bidder. |
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The situation reminds us of fifteenth-century Italy, where casualty-averse mercenary condottieri conducted protracted and nearly bloodless warfare. |
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Statues of condottieri stood in their airless niches, darkness flaring in their eye sockets and nostrils. |
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A danger now arose in the shape of a conspiracy by the deposed despots, the Orsini, and of some of Cesare's own condottieri. |
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