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Bartolomeo Colleoni (-1476)
Died 1476
Married Tisbe Martinengo
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He was one of a more settled generation of mercenaries; and made his
reputation as 'condottiere' in the service of Venice, and apart from a
brief defection to Milan in the 1440s spent his entire career in Venetian
pay. Although employer and soldier had their differences, he died in 1476
as the republic's venerated Captain-General and a very wealthy landowner
and patron. Verrocchio's equestrian statue of him was erected in Venice
at his own request.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
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