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    The Compagnia di San Giorgio ("Company of Saint George") was the name of several companies of mercenaries in Italy during the 14th century. A first company...
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  • viaduct in Genoa, Italy. Compagnia di San Giorgio, the name of several groups of 14th century Italian mercenaries San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk (Monet)...
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    Compagnia di San Giorgio formed by the Italian nobleman Lodrisio Visconti in 1339, the White Company formed by Albert Sterz (1360) and the Compagnia della...
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    Basin, Canale di San Marco and the southern lagoon. It forms part of the San Marco sestiere. San Giorgio Maggiore within Venice San Giorgio Maggiore was...
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  • his breastplate. Urslingen was inspired by Lodrisio Visconti's Compagnia di San Giorgio, under which he had fought in the battle of Parabiago. Commanders...
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    White Company (Italian: Compagnia Bianca del Falco) was a 14th-century English mercenary Free company (Italian: Compagnia di ventura), led from its arrival...
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    Scala of Verona. After the end of that conflict, he entered the Compagnia di San Giorgio, financed by the Veronese and led by Lodrisio Visconti, and took...
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    as foreign: the Astorre I Manfredi's Compagnia della Stella (Company of the Star); a new Compagnia di San Giorgio (Company of St. George) under Ambrogio...
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    "Giovanni Acuto". condottieridiventura.it. Note biografiche di Capitani di Guerra e di Condottieri di Ventura operanti in Italia nel 1330-1550 ("Biographical...
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    Giovanni Acuto. Alberico's compagnia fought under the banner of Saint George, as the compagnia San Giorgio. Born in Barbiano di Cotignola, a commune of what...
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  • ships and the crew by the VOC at Batavia. Its successor, the Compagnia Marittima di San Giorgio, sent a few ships to Brazil but soon ceased operation. Subrahmanyam...
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  • 1365, after a period of inactivity, the company joined with the Compagnia di San Giorgio and fought against Florence, Siena and the Papal State. Caferro...
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  • obtain the money to keep his seignory, he formed a Compagnia di Ventura (mercenary band), called Compagnia della Stella (Company of the Star). He was hired...
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  • The Company of the Rose (Compagnia della Rosa) was a company of mercenary soldiers which operated in northern Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries. It...
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    ordered that Corberán of Alet be buried with all honors in the Church of San George, located two leagues from the city, and that his tomb be beautifully...
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  • Company of Saint George may refer to: Compagnia di San Giorgio, medieval Italian mercenary company during the Hundred Years' War Bank of Saint George,...
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  • The La Compagnia della Stella (Company (or Fellowship) of the Star) was the name of two separate companies of mercenary soldiers which operated in northern...
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    Roger de Flor (redirect from Roger di Flor)
    publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Flor, Roger di". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Burns, R...
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  • cavalry and 1000 infantry, baptized Compagnia di San Giorgio ("Company of St. George"). It was the first organized compagnia of mercenaries led by an Italian...
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    Giorgio Vasari (/vəˈsɑːri/, US also /-ˈzɑːr-, vɑːˈzɑːri/; Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo vaˈzaːri]; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter...
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    the San Marco Brigade. On January 26, the Regiment "La Marina" of the Kingdom of Sardinia (established in 1717) was expanded, becoming the Brigata di Marina:...
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    Domenico enrolled in the Florentine painters' confraternity, the Compagnia di San Luca, by 1442. Two years later he joined the Arte dei Medici e Speziali...
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    the command of the English mercenary John Hawkwood and later the Compagnia di San Giorgio led by Alberico. In his early career he had an uneasy working relationship...
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    eight years, until 1914, it hosted a "compagnia di disciplina". In the period of Italia Unita, the municipality of San Leo belonged to the province of Marche...
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    him and moved to Ancona, capturing Jesi. In 1409 Braccio fought at Città di Castello, for the Florentines and then moved to Rome where he besieged Castel...
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  • of Verona led by Mastino II della Scala. In 1339 he joined the Compagnia di San Giorgio of Lodrisio Visconti to attack Milan, then under the control of...
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    under the influence of Giorgio Vasari and was the first art school in the world. It was initially named the Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno...
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  • Mercenaries Companies Catalan Company Company of the Hat Compagnia della Stella Compagnia di San Giorgio Company of the Rose Great Company (German) Navarrese...
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    and a 15th-century Crucifix, which legend holds was donated to the Compagnia di San Giovanni Battista della Morte (Company of St John the Baptist of the...
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  • the White Company and joining up with Anichino di Bongardo (Hannekin Baumgarten) to form the Compagnia della Stella (Company of the Star). At the end...
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