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See also:FERRUCCIO, or FERRUCCI, See also:FRANCESCO (1489-1530) , Florentine See also:captain. After spending a few years as a See also:merchant's clerk he took to soldiering at an See also:early See also:age, and served in the Betide Nere in various parts of See also:Italy, earning a reputation as a daring fighter and somewhat of a swashbuckler. When See also:Pope See also:Clement VII. and the See also:emperor See also:Charles V. decided to reinstate the See also:Medici in See also:Florence, they made See also:war on the Florentine See also:republic, and Ferruccio was appointed Florentine military See also:commissioner at See also:Empoli, where he showed See also:great daring and resource by his rapid See also:marches and sudden attacks on the Imperialists. Early in 1530 See also:Volterra had thrown off Florentine See also:allegiance and had been occupied by an Imperialist See also:garrison, but Ferruccio surprised and recaptured the See also:city. During his See also:absence, however, the Imperialists captured Empoli by treachery, thus cutting off one of the See also:chief avenues of approach to Florence. Ferruccio proposed to the See also:government of the republic that he should See also:march on See also:Rome and terrorize the pope by the See also:threat of a See also:sack into making See also:peace with Florence on favourable terms, but although the war See also:committee appointed him commissioner-See also:general for the operations outside the city, they rejected his See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme as too audacious. Ferruccio then decided to See also:attempt a diversion by attacking the Imperialists in the See also:rear and started from Volterra for the See also:Apennines. But at See also:Pisa he was laid up for a See also:month with a fever—a misfortune which enabled the enemy to get See also:wind of his See also:plan and to prepare for his attack. At the end of See also:July Ferruccio See also:left Pisa at the See also:head of about 4000 men, and although the besieged in Florence, knowing that a large See also:part of the Imperialists under the See also:prince of See also:Orange had gone to meet Ferruccio, wished to co-operate with the latter by (means of a sortie, they were prevented from doing so by their own traitorous See also:commander-in-chief, Malatesta Baglioni. Ferruccio encountered a much larger force of the enemy on the 3rd of See also:August at Gavinana; a desperate See also:battle ensued, and at first the Imperialists were driven back by Ferruccio's fierce onslaught and the prince of Orange himself was killed, but reinforcements under Fabrizio Maramaldo having arrived, the Florentines were almost annihilated and Ferruccio was wounded and captured. Maramaldo out of See also:personal spite despatched the wounded See also:man with his own See also:hand. This defeat sealed the See also:fate of the republic, and nine days later Florence surrendered. Ferruccio was one of the great soldiers of the age, and his enterprise is the finest See also:episode of the last days of the Florentine republic. See also under FLORENCE and MEDICI.
End of Article: FERRUCCIO, or FERRUCCI, FRANCESCO (1489-1530)
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