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with stockade or ditch, nor did they campaign in the winter.
All these things were permitted by their military rules, and
devised by them to avoid, as I have said, both fatigue and
dangers; thus they have brought Italy to slavery and contempt.
[*] Alberigo da Conio. Alberico da Barbiano, Count of
Cunio in Romagna. He was the leader of the famous ‘Company
of St George,’ composed entirely of Italian soldiers. He
died in 1409.
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