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En este artículo se analizan las opiniones y reflexiones de Maquiavelo sobre los condotierosquienes eran soldados mercenarios, capitanes de fortuna que desempeñaron unafunción muy importante en los acontecimientos militares y políticos de Italia en los siglosXIV, XV y XVI. Particularmente sobre cuatro de ellos: John Hawkwood, Francisco Sforza,Frabrizio Colonna y Castruccio Castracani. Con el análisis de estos personajes, o másbien, con el análisis de la opinión que de ellos tenía Maquiavelo, se pretende mostrar nosólo uno de de los aspectos más importantes de la guerra en el Renacimiento, sino sobretodo aportar elementos básicos para comprender su concepción general de la naturalezahumana y su conexión con el análisis político. ; This paper analyzes Machiavelli's reflections and opinions about the condottiere were relevantcharacters in the Machiavelli's work, the condottiere were mercenary soldiers,soldiers of fortune which had and important function in military and political facts in theXIV, XV and XVI centuries. Particularly about four of them: John Hawkwood, FranciscoSforza, Fabrizio Colonna y Castruccio Castracani. The analysis of these characters, or theMachiavelli's opinion about them, has the objective to show one of the most importantelements of the Renaissance's wars, and so offer basic considerations to understand thegeneral conception of human nature and the connection with political analysis.

The retrieval of the past under a fascist ideological lens included not only the image of Romanity (the celebration of Ancient Rome) but also the representation of the Middle Ages. Medievalism represents one of the less familiar and less researched aspects of the cultural policies of Italian Fascism, part of the programmes of national regeneration of the regime, which promoted exhortation of virility, social order and the supremacy of national arts. This article interrogates the representation of the condottieres within Fascist ideology and questions the retrieval of the medieval heritage of the Italian Renaissance in a cinematic perspective. Mussolini's regime recovered the Risorgimento, the imaginary of a powerful and bellicose country. The identification between Mussolini and the condottieri, propagated through various media, was particularly effective. Once the Fascist regime fell, the heroic and ideological outlook of Fascism was completely reversed in favour of a narrative that exalts pacifism and anti-militarism. ; La récupération du passé par l'idéologie fasciste a non seulement concerné l'image de la Romanité (la célébration de la Rome antique) mais aussi la représentation du Moyen Âge. Le médiévalisme représente une ligne idéologique, que les recherches autour des politiques culturelles du fascisme ont moins abordée, mais qui fut cruciale car elle reprenait les différents programmes du régime de régénération nationale, comme l'exaltation de la virilité, de l'ordre social, et la suprématie des arts nationaux. Cet article traite de la thématique des condottieres à l'intérieur de l'opération idéologique du régime fasciste et questionne la récupération du patrimoine médiéval de la Renaissance italienne dans une optique cinématographique. Le régime de Mussolini a récupéré l'imaginaire du Risorgimento, qui peignait un pays puissant et belliqueux. L'identification de Mussolini à la figure des condottieres, que véhicula la propagande par plusieurs voies, s'avéra très ...

This volume consists of the work of eighteen established and younger scholars and focuses on the Mediterranean as a military arena during the Middle Ages. The essays center on several pillars of Mediterranean warfare: the crusading movement including the Spanish reconquista , the development of gunpowder weaponry, the widespread use of mercenaries, and warfare as understood by the lawcodes and intellectuals of the period. A number of articles in this collection present new answers to old historiographical questions