Crossword-Solution: CONDOTTIERE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Condottiere | n. | A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “CONDOTTIERE”
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| militarist | 26 answers |
| Governing body | 60 answers |
| Adventurer | 62 answers |
| DIRECTOR ___ | 71 answers |
| Leadership | 76 answers |
| fighter | 76 answers |
| Leader? | 81 answers |
| ADVENTURE ___ | 84 answers |
| Leading | 104 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with CONDOTTIERE (5)
Your esteem and your protection are rewards which would make me commit the vilest actions, but these will be--” “The vilest actions!” cried the duchess, interrupting this modern condottiere, and showing on her countenance as much disgust as amazement.
But the highest and the most admired form of illegitimacy in the fifteenth century was presented by the Condottiere, who, whatever may have been his origin, raised himself to the position of an independent ruler.
Pandolfo, Sigismondo’s nephew, who has been mentioned already, succeeded in holding his ground, for the sole reason that the Venetians refused to abandon their Condottiere, whatever guilt he might be chargeable with; when his subjects (1497), after ample provocation,[66] bombarded him in his castle at Rimini, and afterwards allowed him to escape, a Venetian commissioner brought him back, stained as he was with fratricide and every other abomination.
Several of the chief men of Rome, the Prince of Tarentum, and the Condottiere Jacopo Piccinino, were accomplices and supporters of Tiburzio.
The Italians of the fourteenth century knew little of false modesty or of hypocrisy in any shape; not one of them was afraid of singularity, of being and seeming[290] unlike his neighbours.[291] Despotism, as we have already seen, fostered in the highest degree the individuality not only of the tyrant or Condottiere himself,[292] but also of the men whom he protected or used as his tools--the secretary, minister, poet, and companion.