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realm of Naples, and lost it again, in a kind of a felicity of a dream. He passed the whole length of Italy without resistance: so that it was true what Pope Alexander was wont to say. That the Frenchmen came into Italy with chalk in their hands, to mark up their lodgings, rather than with swords to fight." | |
| 100. | Battle of Caravaggio, September 15, 1448. |
| 100.„ | Johanna II. of Naples, the widow of Ladislao, King of Naples. |
| 100.„ | Giovanni Acuto. An English knight whose name was Sir John Hawkwood. He fought in the English wars in France, and was knighted by Edward III.; afterwards he collected a body of troops and went into Italy. These became the famous "White Company." He took part in many wars, and died in Florence in 1394. He was born about 1320 at Sible Hedingham, a village in Essex. He married Domnia, a daughter of Bernabo Visconti. |
| 101. | Carmignuola. Francesco Bossone, born at Carmagnola about 1390, executed at Venice, May 5, 1432. |
| 102. | Bartolomeo Colleoe of Bergamo, died 1475. |
| 102.„ | Roberto of San Severino, died fighting for Venice against Sigismond, Duke of Austria, in 1487. "Primo capitano in Italia," Machiavelli. |
| 102.„ | Count of Pitigliano. Nicolo Orsini, born 1442, died 1510. |
| 102.„ | Battle of Vaila in 1509. |
| 103. | Alberigo da Conio. Alberico da Barbiano, Count of Cunio in Romagna. He was the leader of the famous "Company of St. George," composed entirely of Italian soldiers. He died in 1409. |
| 107. | Ferdinand, King of Spain. Ferdinand V. (F. II. of Aragon and Sicily, F. III. of Naples), surnamed "The Catholic," born 1452, died 1516. |
