Montecuculi

Montecuculi, RAIMONDO, COUNT, was born at Modena in 1608, and entered the Austrian service, distinguishing himself during the Thirty Years' War (especially at Breitenfeld and Nördlingen), in a campaign against the Turks (1664), and against the French under Turenne on the Rhine (1672-75). He was made a Prince of the Empire and Duke of Melfi, and died at Linz, 16th October 1681. A second edition of his Opere Complete appeared in 1823; there is a Life by Campori (1876).