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Which years are covered in Leopold von Ranke’s History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations from 1494 to 1514?

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Leopold Ranke — Leopold von Ranke Ranke, detail of an oil painting by J. Schrader, 1868; in the National-Galerie, Berlin

Leopold von Ranke’s work, History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations from 1494 to 1514, covers the period from 1494 to 1514. Published in 1824, this maiden work examines the struggle between the French and the Habsburgs for control of Italy, which Ranke identified as the phase that ushered in a new historical era.12