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A History of Milan Under the Sforza
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A HISTORY of Milan, under the House of Sforza, can hardly incur the charge of being superfluous. While Rome, Florence and Venice have each found English historians, and while fresh books on Renaissance Italy appear every day, no English writer has told the story of the Sforza as a whole. The scant attention which has been given to the history of Milan may be compared with the brief visit which the traveller pays to the capital of Lombardy before he presses on to other Italian cities. Yet those who pause to look will find, hidden under the bustle of a modern commercial town, numerous relics of an age when the Duchy of Milan was deemed the first State in Italy. To the student of history the rule of the Sforza presents one of the most characteristic examples of an Italian tyranny at the time of the Renaissance...
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Yes, you can access A History of Milan Under the Sforza by Cecilia Ady in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European Renaissance History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- SFORZA AND HIS SON — SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE (1369-1433)
- FRANCESCO SFORZA — LORD OF THE MARCH (1433-1447)
- FRANCESCO SFORZA AND THE AMBROSIAN REPUBLIC (1447-1450)
- FANCESCO SFORZA — DUKE OF MILAN (1450-1466)
- GALEAZZO MARIA SFORZA
- GIAN GALEAZZO, DUKE — LODOVICO SFORZA’S RISE TO POWER (1476-1492)
- LODOVICO SFORZA AND THE FIRST FRENCH INVASION (1492-1498)
- THE FALL OF IL MORO — LOUIS XII. IN MILAN (1498-1507)
- MASSIMILIANO SFORZA AND THE SWISS CONFEDERATION 1508-1515
- FRANCESCO II. — LAST OF THE SFORZA (1515-1535)