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Colleoni, Bartolommeo

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Colleoni, Bartolommeo (1400-1475)

Italian mercenary soldier. He fought for both sides in the wars between the Milanese and Venetians 1423-54, and was imprisoned as a spy by Filippo Visconti, Duke of Milan, in 1446. In 1451 he joined the Venetian army and became generalissimo of the Venetian state.

He is the subject of an equestrian statue in Venice by Andrea del Verrocchio, and a monument in Bergamo by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo.



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