piancaldoli

Updated: May 13, 2025

The Florentines hearing of the count's death, took occasion to recover the fortress of Piancaldoli, of which he had formerly deprived them, and, on sending some forces, captured it; but Cecco, the famous engineer, lost his life during the siege. To this disturbance in Romagna, another in that province, no less important, has to be added.

Niccolò Machiavelli - History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy