Milan Undone: Contested Sovereignties in the Italian Wars

by John Gagne

A new history of how one of the Renaissance's preeminent cities lost its independence in the Italian Wars.

In 1499, the duchy of Milan had known independence for one hundred years. But the turn of the sixteenth century saw the city battered by the Italian Wars. As the major powers of Europe battled for supremacy, Milan, viewed by contemporaries as the "key to Italy," found itself wracked by a tug-of-war between French claimants and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674248724
• ISBN13: 9780674248724
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.4"