# Ottone Buonterzo — Bellarion the Fortunate character guide

> Ottone Buonterzo in Bellarion the Fortunate by Rafael Sabatini.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Buonterzo

**First appearance:** 0026-xi-the-siege-of-alessandria

## Snapshot

A condottiero bound to Facino Cane by contract and comradeship, he fights in the Alessandria campaign where loyalty is tested by siege and shifting fortune.

## Who they are

Ottone Buonterzo belongs to the professional class of captains whose swords are hired but whose reputations are earned, and he has tied his fortunes to Facino Cane's. His presence in the Alessandria campaign places him among the men who must execute the strategies that Facino and his allies devise, bearing the cost when those strategies fail. In the novel's military world, Buonterzo represents the steady, unglamorous backbone of a condottiere's power: capable men whose loyalty is neither blind nor free.

## Relationships

### [Facino Cane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bellarion_the_fortunate_se/characters/facino_cane)

_professional_

Facino Cane and Ottone Buonterzo are colleagues and allies in military and political affairs.

### [Facino Cane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bellarion_the_fortunate_se/characters/facino_cane)

_professional_

Facino Cane and Ottone Buonterzo are colleagues and allies in military and political affairs.

## In the story

### [VIII: The Battle of Travo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bellarion_the_fortunate_se/chapters/viii-the-battle-of-travo)

Commands the opposing army, leads the attack on the ford, and later flees the battle.

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