His title 'Condottiere' was derived from the circumstance that he was said to have received a Condotta di venti cavalli, and so forth.
After visiting the King of Naples, he returned home in the end of October, and in the following autumn had from his Majesty a renewed condotta as captain-general.
Footnote 195: This condotta is preserved in the Oliveriana MSS.
The French conquer Lombardy and enter Milan 377 " Guidobaldo's visit to Venice, and condotta by the June.
Colleoni spent the next years of his life, until 1443, in Lombardy, manoeuvring against Il Piccinino, and gradually rising in the Venetian service, until his condotta reached the number of eight hundred men.
His title "Condottiere" was derived from the circumstance that he was said to have received a Condotta di venti cavalli, and so forth.
He married, for the second time, a lady, Livia della Rovere, who belonged to his own family, but had been born in private station.
It rained itself out at night, and the morning was clear, with the transparent atmosphere of storm-clouds hurrying in broken squadrons from the bad sea quarter.
The failure of the Italians to achieve what here upon the ground appears so simple delivered Italy hand-bound to strangers.
He thus gradually works his way from the rough trade which involves hard work and poor earnings to that more profitable industry which cannot be carried on without a smart boat.
He meanwhile grew love-sick and impatient, wondering how he might declare his passion.
Half a dozen families, employed upon a vast estate of the Martinengo family, occupy the still substantial house and stables.
Monte Rosa lifts her crown of peaks above a belt of clouds into light of living fire.
It makes me shudder now to think of the mixed liquids and miscellaneous cakes we had consumed at that unwonted hour.
Then there came lounging by a sturdy young fellow in brown country clothes, with a marvellous old wide-awake upon his head, and across his shoulders a bunch of massive church-keys.
Meantime the captain of the oarsmen, fearing lest the watch (set by the Masters of the Night to keep the peace of Venice) might arrive, was calling on Gerardo to come back.
The color is strong and brilliant, and the execution solid.
Francesco Maria's condotta with the Florentines being expired, he was named to succeed Teodoro Trivulzio, whose supposed French tendencies occasioned his removal from command of the Venetian troops.
The condotta had a better issue: avowedly for but one year, it seems to have been intended rather to neutralise a troublesome foe than with the idea of calling the Duke's service into actual requisition.
News has reached us that Caesar Borgia is arming, at Rome, a condotta to invade Babbiano, and the people are exasperated at Gian Maria's continued absence in such a season.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "condotta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
