The condottieri: soldiers of fortune |
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
The remembered riders | 11 |
The first Free Companies | 27 |
Copyright | |
23 other sections not shown
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The condottieri: soldiers of fortune |
| Author | Geoffrey Trease |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 25, 2008 |
| Length | 367 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / General History / Europe / Italy |
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