re: #208 wheat-dogghazi

One of the English language textbooks here has a short article about Hawkwood, believe it or not. It prompted me to look him up on Wikipedia. He sure was a wiley fellow. If some city council didn’t pay him, he’d turn his soldiers loose to loot and pillage the city, or go visit a rival city and offer his services (for a suitable fee) to loot and pillage the first city on the rival’s behalf. Despite all this, the Italians loved him.

Ran into his tomb, either in St Peter’s in Rome or Santa Maria di Fiore in Florence. He’s buried under his English name.