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Sir John Hawkwood: Story of a Condottiere
By John Temple-Leader and Giuseppe Marcotti
Translated by Leader Scott
Published by T. Fisher Unwin (London) in 1889
This account of the life and career of John Hawkwood, and the role of mercenaries in Italian warfare during the fourteenth
century, is still considered a valuable and highly-readable work. This
work is divided into forty-four chapters, which we have republished in PDF
format. Readers should also consult a new book by William Caffero: John Hawkwood:
An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy, published by John
Hopkins University Press. Click
here for more information on this book.
Preface
Chapter 1: The
Hawkwood Family - First Engagements in France
Chapter 2: The
English in Piedmont - The Conte Verde - The Death of Count Lando
Chapter 3: Entry
into Tuscany - Against Florence with the Pisans
Chapter 4: Florence
Menaced - Hawkwood faithful to the Pisans
Chapter 5: The
Defeat at Cascina - The Doge of Pisa - The Wandering Englishmen
Chapter 6: The
Organism of Mercenary Companies
Chapter 7: The
Perugian War - The English beaten by the Germans
Chapter 8: A
Hawkwood, A Visconti, and a Hapsburg in the
Company of St. George
Chapter 9: The Defence of Borgoforte - Defeat at Arezzo -
Victory at Cascina
Chapter 10: Campaign in Lombardy for and against Bernabo
Visconti
Chapter 11: A battle regained: Correspondence with Gregory XI
Chapter 12: The exhortation of Saint Catherine - The Holy
Company
Chapter 13: Two Millions and half in Three Months
Chapter 14: A Cardinal as hostage - Hawkwood as Landed
Proprietor
Chapter 15: The slaughter at Faenza - Hostility with Bologna
- Occupations in time of truce
Chapter 16: The Tower of Cotignole - Double Play
Chapter 17: The slaughter of Cesena - Hawkwood against the
Church
Chapter 18: Marriage to Donnina Visconti - In the Romagna
against the Bretons
Chapter 19: Hawkwood as a Mediator for Peace - Grosseto
liberated - Winter Quarters
Chapter 20: Serving Two Masters
Chapter 21: A Father-in-law badly treated by his son-in-law
Chapter 22: The Company of the two brothers-in-law - Hawkwood
fighting for his possessions - A revolution prevented
Chapter 23: Against the Company of St. George - The Contest
with Astorre Manfredi
Chapter 24: Hawkwood sells his possessions in Romagna and has
Florence at his feet
Chapter 25: Hawkwood maintains order and checks the Company
of St. George - Enters the pay of the Pope
Chapter 26: Deeds and Affairs of Hawkwood in the Kingdom of
Naples
Chapter 27: The Catastrophe of Bernabo Visconti
Chapter 28: War between the Carraras of Padua and the
Scaligers of Verona
Chapter 29: The Battle of Castagnaro
Chapter 30: Liquidation of Property - The English in the
service of the Pope
Chapter 31: Carlo Visconti and the the Pope's Englishmen
under Hawkwood's orders
Chapter 32: The Neapolitan Enterprise
Chapter 33: War in time of Peace
Chapter 34: First Operations against Gian Galeazzo
Chapter 35: The march to the banks of the
Adda
Chapter 36: The Retreat across the Adige
Chapter 37: The War in Tuscany
Chapter 38: Marriages of Janet and Catherine Hawkwood
Chapter 39: Monument to the Living Hawkwood
Chapter 40: The Castle of Montecchio
Chapter 41: Death and Funeral Obsequies
Chapter 42: The Monument in Santa Maria del Fiore
Chapter 43: Hereditary Liquidations
Chapter 44: Hawkwood's descendants - The Two Roses
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