Brancaleone

"L'Armata Brancaleone" "For Love and Gold", released in 1966, follows the adventures of an unlikely group of men in the Middle Ages led by a pompous knight played by Gassman in one of his most famous roles.

Mario Monicelli, Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter, dies at 95 Alessandra Rizzo 2010

In their flip-flops and Bermuda shorts, hoisting red flags and a thicket of hoes, they make a ragtag legion, one part peasant insurgent, one part Brancaleone.

A Plot Of Their Own 2007

Francis, however, found excuses for not spending more than two or three days in the palace of Brancaleone, saying that it was not fitting for the poor to dwell in the palaces of princes.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

Francis, however, found excuses for not spending more than two or three days in the palace of Brancaleone, saying that it was not fitting for the poor to dwell in the palaces of princes.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917

Lateran Basilica; no new buildings arose, except the innumerable towers, or keeps, of which Brancaleone degli Andalò, the senator

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

In the thirteenth century the Sindaco caused his own name to be stamped upon the coins, and, consequently, we have coins of Brancaleone, of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Brancaleone were sent as papal legates to Germany to mediate between

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Brancaleone who, before his death in 1258, was twice overthrown and restored to power.

The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 1907

The first step of the senator Brancaleone in the establishment of peace and justice, was to demolish (as we have already seen) one hundred and forty of the towers of Rome; and in the last days of anarchy and discord, as late as the reign of Martin the

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Various 1887

We know that the Senator Brancaleone made havoc among the classic monuments occupied as fortresses by

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866