mangiadori

Updated: June 2, 2025

Then the Bishop, who was short-sighted, asked, 'Those there: what walls be they? They answered him, 'The shields of the enemy. Messer Barone de' Mangiadori da San Miniato, a chevalier frank and well skilled in deeds of arms, gathered his men-at-arms together and said to them, 'My masters, in Tuscan wars men were wont to conquer by making a stout onset, and that lasted but a while, and few men died, for it was not in use to kill.

John Richard Greene - Stray Studies from England and Italy