A very imperfect, ungentle knight John Adamson considers the career of Sir John Hawkwood, the English mercenary who terrorised 14th- century Italy

The Sunday Telegraph London | October 31, 2004| | Copyright

Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman

by Frances Stonor Saunders

Faber, pounds 17.99, 366 pp

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VISIT TUSCANY today - that refuge of English expatriates where there are more knighted residents than in Gloucestershire - and you will find that Italians have a generally favourable view of Englishmen abroad. Some may be regarded as a little fey, but most are thought to be genial, and they do little to frighten the natives.

Yet the Italians' view of their Anglo-Saxon cousins was not always quite so benign. In the 14th century, these milordi inglesi were more ...

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