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losses sudden and portentous.
            [*] Battle of Caravaggio, 15th September 1448.
            [+] Johanna II of Naples, the widow of Ladislao, King of
         Naples.
            [%]  Giovanni  Acuto.  An  English  knight  whose  name
         was Sir John Hawkwood. He fought in the English wars in
         France, and was knighted by Edward III; afterwards he col-
         lected a body of troops and went into Italy. These became
         the famous ‘White Company.’ He took part in many wars,
         and died in Florence in 1394. He was born about 1320 at
         Sible Hedingham, a village in Essex. He married Domnia, a
         daughter of Bernabo Visconti.
            [#] Carmignuola. Francesco Bussone, born at Carmag-
         nola about 1390, executed at Venice, 5th May 1432.
            [&] Bartolomeo Colleoni of Bergamo; died 1457. Roberto
         of San Severino; died fighting for Venice against Sigismund,
         Duke of Austria, in 1487. ‘Primo capitano in Italia.’—Ma-
         chiavelli.  Count  of  Pitigliano;  Nicolo  Orsini,  born  1442,
         died 1510.
            [$] Battle of Vaila in 1509.
            And as with these examples I have reached Italy, which
         has been ruled for many years by mercenaries, I wish to dis-
         cuss them more seriously, in order that, having seen their
         rise and progress, one may be better prepared to counter-
         act them. You must understand that the empire has recently
         come to be repudiated in Italy, that the Pope has acquired
         more temporal power, and that Italy has been divided up
         into more states, for the reason that many of the great cities
         took up arms against their nobles, who, formerly favoured

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