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- Title
<em>The wages of peace: the</em> condotte <em>of Ludovico Gonzaga, 1436-1478</em>.
- Authors
Swain, Elisabeth Ward
- Abstract
In late September 1448 Ludovico Gonzaga struggled home from the worst defeat of his career as a professional soldier. Commanding 500 lance and 400 foot-soldiers, he had led one wing of the Venetian army in an attack on Milanese forces outside the Venetian town of Caravagglo. Gonzaga was 36 years old at this, the low point of his career as a fighting man. He would continue to serve as a mercenary commander for another thirty years. Gonzaga succeeded as a condottiere and a prince not by courage or by prowess, but by tact. In his long career as a professional soldier, Ludovico fought only one pitched battle after he was driven from the field of Caravaggio.
- Subjects
MILITARY personnel; GONZAGA, Ludovico, marchese, 1414-1478; WORLD history; CONDOTTIERI; ARMIES; MERCENARY troops
- Publication
Renaissance Studies, 1989, Vol 3, Issue 4, p442
- ISSN
0269-1213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1477-4658.1989.tb00199.x