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I believe that as General Tevis formed his bold ideal of life from much reading of condottieri or military adventurers, and Robert Hunt from Cooper's novels, so Wykoff got his inspiration for a career from studying and admiring the diplomatic parvenus of Queen Anne's time. — Memoirs
His condottieri, Paolo Orsini, Giuliano Orsini, Vitellozzo Vitelli, and Ercole Bentivoglio were with him during these autumn days. — Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
[183 In this same month of October occurred the disaffection of Cćsar's condottieri which nearly ended in his overthrow. — Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
The sovereigns came gradually to disuse this cumbersome and dangerous machine, so apt to recoil upon the hand which held it; and exchanging the military service for pecuniary supplies, enlisted forces by means of a contract with particular officers, (such as those the Italians denominate "condottieri,") whom they dismissed at the end of the war. — The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III.
Even the banditti and condottieri, who enliven so many novels of terror, cannot be ignored, and are represented by a troop of Irish ruffians. — The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance