Beautiful Large 19th C. Bronze Figure of Italian General \"Bartolomeo Colleoni\"

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Provenance: from the personal collection ofLarry and Joy Redman of Lompoc, California.Bartolomeo ColleoniBartolomeo Colleoni was an Italian condottiero, who became captain-general of the Republic of Venice. Colleoni \"gained reputation as the foremost tactician and disciplinarian of the 15th century\". He is also credited with having refurbished the Roman baths at Trescore Balneario.
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  • Born:1400 ·Bergamo, Italy
  • Died:Nov 02, 1475

Bartolomeo ColleoniFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBartolomeo Colleoni

Bartolomeo Colleoni(Italian pronunciation:[bartolo§m§§o kolle§o§ni]; 1400 § 2 November 1475) was anItaliancondottiero, who becamecaptain-generalof theRepublic of Venice. Colleoni \"gained reputation as the foremost tactician and disciplinarian of the15th century\".[1]He is also credited with having refurbished the Roman baths atTrescore Balneario.

Colleoni was born inSolza, in the countryside ofBergamo(then part of theDuchy of Milan), where he prepared his magnificent mortuary chapel, theCappella Colleoni, in a shrine that he seized after it was refused him by the local confraternity, the Consiglio della Misericordia.His familywas a noble one, exiled with the rest of theGuelphsby theVisconti. Bartolomeo\'s fatherPaoloseized the castle of Trezzo by wile and held it by force, until he was assassinated by his cousins, probably acting on order ofFilippo Maria Visconti, Duke ofMilan.

Verrocchio, Bartolomeo Colleoni, Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo a Venezia opposite La Scuola Grande di San MarcoBartolomeo Colleoni Monument atLotników Square,Szczecin, Poland

The young Colleoni trained at first in the retinue of Filippo d\'Arcello, the new master ofPiacenza. Then he entered the service of various condottieri, beginning withBraccio da Montone, who was skirmishing in Apulia, profiting from the struggles betweenAlfonso of AragonandLouis of Anjouduring the weak sovereignty ofQueen Joan IIby taking Alfonso\'s cause, and then ofCarmagnola. After the latter was put to death at Venice (1432), Colleoni passed to direct service of theVenetian Republic, entering on the major phase of his career. AlthoughGianfrancesco Gonzagawas nominally commander-in-chief, Colleoni was in fact the true leader of the army. He recaptured many towns and districts for Venice from the Milanese, and when Gonzaga went over to the enemy, Colleoni continued to serve the Venetians underErasmo da Narni(known as Gattamelata) andFrancesco Sforza, winning battles atBrescia,Verona, and on theLake of Garda.[2]

When peace was made between Milan and Venice in 1441, Colleoni went over to the Milanese, together with Sforza in 1443. Although well treated at first, Colleoni soon fell under the suspicion of the Visconti, and was imprisoned atMonza, where he remained until the duke\'s death in 1447. Milan then fell under the lordship of Sforza, whom Colleoni served for a time, but in 1448 he took leave of Sforza and returned to the Venetians. Disgusted at not having been elected captain-general, he went over to Sforza once more, but Venice could not do without him; by offering him increasedemoluments, Venice induced him to return, and in 1455 he was appointed captain-general of the republic for life. Although he occasionally fought on his own account, when Venice was at peace, he remained at the disposal of the republic in time of war until his death.[2]

He set his residence in thecastle of Malpaga, which he had bought in 1465 and restored in the following years.

Although he often changed sides, no act of treachery is imputed to him, nor did he subject the territories he passed through to the rapine and exactions practiced by other soldiers of fortune. When not fighting, he devoted his time to introducing agricultural improvements on the vast estates with which the Venetians had endowed him, and to charitable works. At his death in 1475 at Malpaga, he left a large sum to the republic for theTurkishwar, with a request that anequestrian statue of himselfshould be erected in thePiazza San Marco. The statue was modelled byAndrea del Verrocchioand cast in bronze after his death byAlessandro Leopardi, but, as no monument was permitted in the piazza, it was placed near theScuola Grande of St Markoutside the Church of SS Giovanni e Paolo.[2]

Italian cruiserBartolomeo Colleoni[edit]

In 1930 the ItalianRegia Marinalauncheda cruiserof theCondottiericlassnamed after Bartolomeo Colleoni.

References[edit]
  1. Jump up^Websters New Biographical Dictionary© 1983 Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Inc., p. 223
  2. ^Jump up to:abcOne or more of the preceding sentencesincorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Villari, Luigi(1911). \"Colleoni, Bartolommeo\". In Chisholm, Hugh.Encyclopædia Britannica.6(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p.687.This cites:
      G. M. Bonomi,Il Castello di Cavernago e i conti Martinengo Colleoni(Bergamo, 1884)
    • For an account of his wars seeS. Romanin,Storia documentata di Venezia, vol. iv. (Venice, 1855), and other histories of Venice
    Rendina, Claudio (1994).I capitani di ventura. Rome: Newton Compton.

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