Battle of Campaldino
Battle between Guelphs and Ghibellines (June 11, 1289) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Battle of Campaldino was fought between the Guelphs and Ghibellines on 11 June 1289.[9] Mixed bands of pro-papal Guelf forces of Florence and allies, Pistoia, Lucca, Siena, and Prato, all loosely commanded by the paid condottiero Amerigo di Narbona with his own professional following, met a Ghibelline force from Arezzo including the perhaps reluctant bishop, Guglielmino degli Ubertini, in the plain of Campaldino, which leads from Pratovecchio to Poppi, part of the Tuscan countryside along the upper Arno called the Casentino. One of the combatants on the Guelph side was Dante Alighieri, twenty-four years old at the time.
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Battle of Campaldino | |||||||
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Part of the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | |||||||
Fresco in San Gimignano from 1292 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Amerigo di Narbona Guillaume da Durfort † Corso Donati Vieri de' Cerchi Barone de Mangiadori |
Guglielmo Ubertini † Bonconte I da Montefeltro †[4] Guido Novello Guidi[4] | ||||||
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c. 12,000[5]
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10,000 infantry 800 cavalry | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
300 killed,[7] many wounded[8] | 1,700 killed, many wounded, 2,000 captured[8] |
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