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266 IL PRINCIPE.
H anno dipoi avuto per loro capitani Bartolomeo da Bergamo,
Roberto da San Severino, il conte di Pitigliano e simili,
i. Bartolommeo da Bergamo] Bartolommeo Colleone da Bergamo.
We first hear of him as taking part in the wars which broke
out in Lombardy on the death of Glan Galeazzo Vlseonti ; subsequently
[1417] he fought in the Neapolitan territory on behalf of
Giovanna II. He joined the Venetians in i424, and was engaged in
the operations before Cremona, mentioned in the preceding note;
only while Carmagnola was then disgraced, Bartolommeo's courage
won him great reputation, and the position of captain general of the
Venetian infi_ntry. After the conclusion of the war in 1441, the
Venetians dismissed their condottieri, and Bartolommeo in consequence
joined Filippo Maria Visconti at Milan, who was treacherous
enough to imprison him. Bartolommeo escaped in 1447, on the
death of the Duke, and, withdrawing to Bergamo, once more took
service with the Venetians. At the disastrous battle of Caravaggio
already referred to [1448 ] he was one of the few who managed to
escape. One incident from his later hfe may be mentioned here ; in
i467 the Florentine exiles, who had been involved in the ruin of
Luca Pitti in the year before, applied to Venice for aid. Bartolommeo,
on behalf of the 'fuorusem' invaded Tuscany, and met the
forces of the Florentines under Frederick of Urbino at Molinella on
May Io, 1467. Machiavelli's account of this battle will be given later
on. The result was indecisive, and a truce was concluded on
August 8 of the same year. Bartolommeo died October 3, 1475.
[Ricotti, vol. iii. p. 12o foll., 205 foll.; Guicciardini, Op. Ined. lil.
pp. 21, 22 ; Arch. Stor. Ital. vol. xv. p. I85, ]
2. Roberto da San Severino] The military career of San Severino
falls naturally into three periods, in the second of which he served
Venice. He was the illegitimate son of a Neapohtan baron, and
early left his native place to join in the wars in Lombardy. After the
death of Galeazzo Mama Sforza, he supported Ludovico Moro and
the other conspirators against the Regent, the Duchess Bona [see
Historical Abstract] ; then in May 1482, he was appointed captain of
the Venetian forces in the war between Venice and Ferrara ; thirdly,
after the peace of Bagnolo, he commanded the Pope's tbrces in the
Neapolitan war. He died in 1487, fighting for Venice against
Sigismond, Duke of Austria. [Details in Ricotti, part iv. cap. vi.]
See Ist. Flor. vii. Op. 2. 188; viii. Op. 2. 247, 263, "267,&e. In Op. ii.
377 [' Nature di uomini fiorentini.'] Machmvelli calls him 'primo
capitano in Italia.'
2. il oonte eli Pitigliano] Niccol60rsini, born 1442. He took part
in the Neapolitan war in 1485 [Historical Abstract, 1485 ; Ist. Fior.
hb. viii. Op. 2. 264 ; Gino Capponi, ii. 415]. In I5O2, when Italy was