The Battle of San Romano was fought on 1 June 1432, in San Romano, some 30 miles outside Florence,Private Life of a Masterpiece, BBC TV between the troops of

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, commanded by

Niccolò da Tolentino Niccolò Mauruzzi (or Mauruzi), best known as Niccolò da Tolentino ( – March 20, 1435) was an Italian condottiero. Biography A member of the Mauruzi della Stacciola family of Tolentino, he fled from that city in 1370 after a dispute with his ...

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, under Francesco Piccinino. The outcome is generally considered favourable to the Florentines, but in the Sienese chronicles it was considered a victory. As the 1430s began Florence had found itself in conflict with the rival city state of

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, and her allies, Siena and Milan. The Florentine deployed about 4,000 horse and 2,000 infantry. The clash, which lasted for some six or seven hours, consisted of a series of heavy cavalry fights. It was decided by the intervention of a second cavalry corps commanded by Micheletto Attendolo.

Paintings

The battle was depicted in three large paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist,

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: '' The Battle of San Romano''. Today the three panels are separated and located in galleries in

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: * '' Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano'' (probably about 1438–1440), egg tempera with walnut oil and linseed oil on poplar, 182 x 320 cm, National Gallery, London.National Gallery Catalogues: The Fifteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume 1, by Dillian Gordon, 2003, pp. 378–397 * ''Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino unseats Bernardino della Ciarda at the Battle of San Romano'' (dating uncertain, about 1435 to 1455), tempera on wood, 182 x 320 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence * ''The Counterattack of Michelotto da Cotignola at the Battle of San Romano'' (about 1455), wood panel, 182 x 317 cm,

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References

External links

Page at www.condottieridiventura.it
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