The principal speaker is Fabrizio Colonna, a professional condottiere and Machiavelli's authority on the art of war. |
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Defeated by Louis at Roccasecca, Ladislas reorganized his forces, made peace with Florence, and won the aid of the skilled condottiere Muzio Attendolo Sforza. |
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Born of a noble Perugian family, Braccio became the pupil of Alberico da Barbiano, the first great Italian condottiere, initiating a lifelong rivalry with another of Alberico's followers, Muzio Attendolo Sforza. |
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On Venice's launching a new war against Florence, he made an alliance with Milan and Naples, defeated the condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni at Imola, and, under the peace of 1468, acquired Sarzana and Sarzanello. |
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Francesco Sforza was the son of a condottiere and a condottiere himself, quite different from the merchants and bankers of the south, like the Medicis in Florence. |
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