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Niccolò Piccinino

c. 1386–1444 · 15th century

Niccolò Piccinino was an Italian condottiere from Perugia, a pupil of Braccio da Montone, who led the armies of Filippo Maria Visconti, duke of Milan, from the 1420s to the 1440s. He fought Venice, Florence and the Papacy and was defeated by the Florentines and papal forces at the Battle of Anghiari in 1440. He died in Milan in 1444.

Niccolò Piccinino
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