According to one story, this man once cursed two friars who wished him peace, declaring, "I live on war, and peace will undo me.
According to one story, this man once cursed two friars who wished him peace, declaring, "I live on war, and peace will undo me." Catherine of Siena once sent an embassy of three men demanding that this man end his war with Pisa and go on crusade. After his enemy Konrad von Landau had his nose smashed in by a rock, this man, along with Albert Sterz, routed the Great Company at the Battle of Canturino. This man lost a battle celebrated in a Michelangelo cartoon, the Battle of Cascina. His less noble ventures include committing the massacres of Faenza and Cesena. Gregory XI hired this man to put down the revolts of the Papal States during the War of the Eight Saints. This leader of the White Company is celebrated in a "funerary monument" created by Paolo Uccello. For 10 points, name this English condottiero who repeatedly switched sides in 14th-century Italy.
According to one story, this man once cursed two friars who wished him peace, declaring, "I live on war, and peace will undo me.
Sir John {Hawkwood} [or Giovanni {Acuto}]