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This Day in History — July 23
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10 Swashbuckling Mercenaries Who Ravaged Medieval Europe
The late medieval period was a chaotic time in history. England and France were engaged in the Hundred Years’ War, and Italian city-states were fighting one another for supremacy in the peninsula. In the absence of permanent standing armies, combatants relied on mercenary companies to do the fighting for them. The temporary peace brought about by the Treaty of Bretigny in 1360 unleashed thousands of unemployed men-at-arms looking to pillage to sustain themselves. Many coalesced around charismatic and intrepid leaders into what became known as “free companies.” In Italy, they were known as
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How Italy became Europe s rice producer CNN 3/5/2021 © Lux Film/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/Getty Images Silvana Mangano with Vittorio Gassman in Riso Amaro.
It was the movie that added sex appeal to the gritty neorealist film period and made a star out of actress Silvana Mangano. Riso Amaro ( Bitter Rice ), featured women wearing daring shorts with ripped stockings tramping through water, girl-on-girl mud-wrestling, and Mangano s ample cleavage in everything from tight t-shirts to a negligee. © American Stock Archive/Archive Photos/Getty Images Mondine in the rice fields of Piedmont, circa 1920-1950.
The film, a neorealist thriller-slash-tragedy, saw a criminal couple infiltrate the rice fields in Italy s Piedmont region, and ticked off gun fights and a rice heist.
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