Well, he was simply magnificent, a born ruler; what a splendid Condottiere he would have made, in gold armor, with a griffin grinning on his casque!
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
But he was really little more than a Condottiere, and his orthodoxy was suspect.
"The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir"
Sir James McCrone Douie
And who shall say that the early Jacobinism and later culture of Napoleon was more than a veneer spread all too thinly over an Italian Condottiere of the Renaissance age?
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose