Condottieri: Revizyonlar arasındaki fark

Bu şekilde oluşturulan ve disiplinli kurallara sahip olan ilk paralı asker böllüğü Dük [[Werner von Urslingen]] ve Kont [[Konrad von Landau]] tarafından kurulan [[Ventura Bölüğü]] olur. Bölük olağanüstü disiplinli olması ve herkese rütbeden bağımsız olarak kârdan eşit hisse dağıtmasıyla ünlenir. Komutanlığını bir İtalyanın yaptığı ilk paralı asker bölüğü ise ''Aziz George Bölüğü'' olur.<ref>Bölük 1339 yılında Milanlı Luchino tarafından yenilir ve dağıtılır</ref>

 

 

 

The earlier, mediæval condottieri developed the art of war (strategy and tactics) into military science more than any of their historical military predecessors—fighting indirectly, not directly—thus, only reluctantly endangering themselves and their enlisted men, avoiding battle when possible, also avoiding hard work and winter campaigns, as these all reduced the total number of trained soldiers available, and was detrimental to their political and economic interest.[3] Niccolò Machiavelli even said that condottieri fought each other in grandiose, but often pointless and near-bloodless battles. However, later in the Renaissance the condottieri line of battle still deployed the grand armoured knight and mediæval weapons and tactics after most European powers had begun employing professional standing armies of pikemen and musketeers--this helped to contribute to their eventual decline and destruction.[citation needed]

Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood (1436) in the Florence Cathedral, by Paolo Uccello. The fresco is an important artistic commemoration of a mercenary, and a seminal development of perspective.