Aristotle's contempt for the [Greek: _technitai_] emerges in these comments of the doctrinaires.
[4] To multiply the instances of fraud and treason on the part of Italian condottieri would be easy.

I have only mentioned the notable examples which fall within a critical period of five years.

The Marquis of Pescara betrayed to Charles V.the league for the liberation of Italy, which he had joined at Milan.

The Duke of Ferrara received and victualed Bourbon's (then Frundsberg's) army on its way to sack Rome, because he spited the Pope, and wanted to seize Modena for himself.

The Duke of Urbino, wishing to punish Clement VII.