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Pedro Navarro, count de Olivetto

Spanish military engineer and general
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c. 1460
Died:
1528
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Pedro Navarro, count de Olivetto (born c. 1460—died 1528) was a Spanish military engineer and general who fought for various countries and city-states in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Navarro began life as a sailor and was employed later as mozo de espuela, or running footman, by Cardinal Juan de Aragon. On the death of his employer in 1485 he enlisted as a mercenary in a war between Florence and Genoa and was subsequently engaged for some years in the warfare between Genoese corsairs and the Muslims of North Africa. Navarro was no more scrupulous than others, for ...(100 of 424 words)

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