HISTORY SAUL DAVID ON A TALE OF RIVALRY AND BACK-STABBING IN MEDIEVAL ITALY

The Sunday Telegraph London | April 6, 2008| | Copyright

Vendetta: High Art and Low

Cunning at the Birth of

the Renaissance

BY HUGH BICHENO

WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 25, 290 pp

T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

The period of 'highly creative destruction' that prepared the ground for the Renaissance in Italy is sometimes known

as the Age of the Condottieri, after the rapacious soldiers of fortune who dominated Italian warfare from the 13th to the 15th centuries.

In Vendetta Hugh Bicheno concentrates on the 200-year-old feud between two of the most prominent Condottieri clans, the Montefeltro and the Malatesta, promising a story of ...

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