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's ''Il Condottiero'', 1480.]] HISTORY In the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Italian City-state s were becoming enriched by their trade with the Orient . These cities, such as Venice , Florence , and Genoa , had woefully small armies and were increasingly becoming targets of attack by foreign powers as well as envious neighbours. The noblemen ruling the cities soon resorted to hiring companies of mercenaries known as ''condotta'' ("contract") to defend their territories. Each condotta was led by a ''condottiere'', a term which soon became synonymous with "captain". The very first of these bands (called in contemporary Italy ''masnada'', plural ''masnade'') appeared between the end of the in the October 1282 and had remained there afterward searching for employers. Other mercenaries came in 1333 alongside John Of Bohemia , and therefore served Perugia in its war against Arezzo with the name ''Compagnia della Colomba'' ("Dove Company"). Some of these ''masnade'' were merely a grouping of bandits and other desperate men. |
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