Absolutism in Renaissance Milan : plenitude of power under the Visconti and the Sforza, 1329-1535 / Jane Black.
Absolutism in Renaissance Milan shows how authority above the law, once the preserve of pope and emperor, was claimed by the ruling Milanese dynasties, the Visconti and the Sforza, and why this privilege was finally abandoned by Francesco II Sforza (d. 1535), the last duke. As new rulers, the Viscon...
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