Word: condottieri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politics and culture of this time were dominated by three exquisitely discriminating and utterly ruthless daimyo, or warlords, who set out to unify the 200 squabbling fiefdoms of Japan: Oda Nobunaga and his successors, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Like the humanist condottieri of 15th century Italy, they built themselves impregnable and magnificent castles. "This room you see here," Hideyoshi would tell his guests as he gave them a tour of his seven-story castle at Osaka, "is full of gold, this one of silver; this other compartment is full of bales of silk and damask, that one with robes...
...electors (630 Deputies, 320 Senators and 58 regional representatives) were in the process of naming a successor to Giuseppe Saragat, whose term expires Dec. 28. The chosen electors went about that serious task with all the noble intent and show of national interest of a group of condottieri...