Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Italian captain (born 1498)

Giovanni delle Bande Nere

Italian condottiero (1498–1526)

Ludovico de' Medici, also known as Giovanni delle Bande Nere was an Italian condottiero. He is known for leading the Black Bands and serving valiantly in military combat under his third cousins, Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII, in the War of Urbino and the War of the League of…