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Updated: June 11, 2025
In fact the Condottieri had reason to fear none so much as their employers: if they were successful, they became dangerous, and were put out of the way like Roberto Malatesta just after the victory he had won for Sixtus IV ; if they failed, the vengeance of the Venetians on Carmagnola showed to what risks they were exposed . It is characteristic of the moral aspect of the situation that the Condottieri had often to give their wives and children as hostages, and notwithstanding this, neither felt nor inspired confidence.
Under the rule of their de facto government they took part in repressing the uprising of the Piedmontese against the French at Carmagnola.
At the conclusion of a peace between the Pope and the Bolognese, Bartolommeo found himself without occupation. He now offered himself to the Venetians, and began to fight again under the great Carmagnola against Filippo Visconti. His engagement allowed him forty men, which, after the judicial murder of Carmagnola at Venice in 1432, were increased to eighty.
As he was returning from Mass, other spies came up to him with the news: "My lord, I have seen close by more than a thousand French horsemen, and they are coming to find you here." He was a little taken aback, and turned to one of his gentlemen, to whom he said: "Take twenty horsemen and go along the road to Carmagnola for two or three miles, and see if there is anything to alarm us."
May Madonna preserve them! "You have not come to that! You can do all you want all I want of you, I know." Towards morning the Prince stole away and found Carmagnola lying asleep across the door. "Altezza," said the gondolier, "the Duchess ordered me to give you this note." He held out a dainty sheet of paper folded into a triangle.
At the same time the Duke of Bari presented her with the stately Palazzo del Verme, originally built by his ancestor, Filippo Maria Visconti, for the great Captain Carmagnola, on the piazza of the Duomo, as a token of his regard and a heritage for her infant son.
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