Giancarlo Guidotti: 2 books

The Count of CarmagnolaThe Italian peninsula during the first part of the XV century was split into five large states (Milan, Venice, Florence, Papal States and Naples) and countless small states, in ceaseless conflict one with another.Mercenary militia, which sprung up after 1000 A.D. from the disintegration...

Ghino di Tacco’s family was the head of a vast anti-Guelph resistance movement, which covered most of the area situated to the southeast of Siena, as far as the Val di Chiana. It was right in the middle of this turbulence, in such tumult of different worlds, that the horizon of the Sienese state...