This brilliant condottiere of the pen was, in fact, long to remain a slave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference

Venice's condottiere Aldo Frescata had sold the North to the Scaligers of Verona.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Of The Lion]

Even a highly educated condottiere was not immune from scrutiny in these matters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

Then he served as a condottiere in Shem and among the southernmost Hyborian kingdoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan Of The Isles]

Calm and severe, he saw in Napoleon only Taine's 'condottiere' who kicked Volney in the stomach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Note 163: Regarding the dubious conduct of condottiere, see chapter 12 of Machiavelli's The Prince. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

Conan returns to the Hyborian kingdoms, where he serves as a condottiere in Nemedia, Ophir, and finally Argos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan of Cimmeria]

Throughout the course of the evening, the condottiere had to remind himself repeatedly: this man is the enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet Prince] Reference

This he did with the help of the Castilian party, who hoped to profit by the services of the famous condottiere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

Because of Donatello's fame, Vasari says, the Signoria of Venice commissioned him to erect a memorial to a condottiere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monument to a Mercenary] Reference

Starting out like a condottiere in the service of use value, exchange value has ended up waging the war for its own sake.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 August] Reference

Is he not the famous Bianchetti, a condottiere employed by the people, as the condottieri once were by the kings and nobles?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

A condottiere would have had another source of familiarity with penne, as the stabilizing components of the archer's arrow. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

Seeking further employment as a condottiere, he joins a mercenary army that a Zingaran, Prince Zapayo da Kova, is raising for Argos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Adventurer]

Sforza was the great condottiere who, after the departure of the Visconti, ascended the throne of Milan as the first duke of his house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

Two years later, Federico received formal training as a condottiere under Milan's captain general, the shrewd tactician Niccolò Piccinino.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

"A girl a condottiere -- who ever heard of such a prodigy?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference

Brandilancia to his astonishment recognised the condottiere Radicofani.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference

He had in his veins the mixed blood of the condottiere and the gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2] Reference

But he was really little more than a condottiere, and his orthodoxy was suspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir] Reference

Here is a peasant girl caught up to his saddle-bow by a condottiere, Brunoro, during some village raid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference

As a condottiere by profession I could have sold my services to the French but I preferred to offer them to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference

Cool, incisive, fearless, artful, he united the unscrupulous audacity of a condottiere with the wily patience of a Jesuit.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

For fighting blood ran in the veins of the Lady of Forlì, she being the grand-daughter of the great condottiere Francesco Sforza.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference

They seem to have been led by the men of Caen under a Lombard condottiere called Le Grand Jacques, or as the English poem has it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rouen] Reference

"The vilest actions!" cried the duchess, interrupting this modern condottiere, and showing on her countenance as much disgust as amazement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrix] Reference