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Vitellozzo Vitelli
Italian politician (c. –)
For the Roman Catholic cardinal, see Vitellozzo Cardinal Vitelli.
Vitellozzo Vitelli (c. &#;&#; 31 December ) was an Italian condottiero. He was lord of Montone, Città di Castello, Monterchi and Anghiari.
Biography
Together with his father, Niccolò, who became lord of Città di Castello, and his brothers, who all at one time or other were condottieri (mercenary captains), this family instituted a new type of infantry armed with sword and pike to resist the German men-at-arms, and also a corps of mounted infantry armed with arquebuses. Vitellozzo served the Medici of Florence in their war against Pisa, and later with the French in Apulia in and with the Orsini faction against Pope Alexander VI.[1]
In Vitellozzo and the Orsini made peace with the pope, and the latter's son Cesare Borgia, being determined to crush the petty tyrants of Romagna and consolidate papal power in that province, took the condottieri into Machiavelli the art of war.