...he did not want to waste them. As for the soldiers: "they have no love or other motive to keep them in the field beyond a trifling wage, which is not...Machiavelli, "none were killed excepting Lodovico degli Obizzi, and he together with two of his men was thrown from his horse and suffocated in the mud." Machiavelli...

...he did not want to waste them. As for the soldiers: "they have no love or other motive to keep them in the field beyond a trifling wage, which is not enough to make them ready to die for you." Battles hi fifteenth-century Italy might be protracted but they were often almost bloodless as well. In the...

...disunited, ambitious, without discipline, faithless. . . . They have no love or other motive to keep them in the field beyond a trifling wage, which is not enough to make them ready to die for you"; 15. The two characterizations are not inconsistent. 9It should be said, however, that Hartle and Hackett...

...keep no faith with men . . . The cause of this is that they have no love or other motive to keep them in the field beyond a trifling wage, which is not enough to make them ready to die for you.36 This argument is generally a valid and compelling one, but Michael Polanyi, with the last years...

...them, and in war by the enemy. The cause of this is that they have no love or other motive to keep them in the field beyond a trifling wage, which is not enough to make them ready to die for you. (Prince, chapter 12) Mercenaries are "ambitious" in exactly the sense that they are not committed to...

...them, and in war by the enemy. The cause of this is that they have no love or other motive to keep them in the field beyond a trifling wage, which is not enough to make them ready to die for you. They are quite willing to be your soldiers so long as you do not make war, but when war comes, it is...