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Facts

Born July 23, 1401 • Italy
Died March 8, 1466 (aged 64) • Milan • Italy
House / Dynasty Sforza family
Role In Peace of Lodi

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Illuminated 15th-century parchment document with ornate initial letter, dense handwritten Latin text, and a large wax seal at the bottom, granting commercial rights in Milan.
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Muzio Attendolo Sforza
Italian condottiere
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Niccolò Piccinino
Italian mercenary
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Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli by Santi di Tito shows Machiavelli in black and red robes, holding a document, against a plain background.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Portrait painting by Fra Bartolomeo of Girolamo Savonarola in profile, wearing a dark hooded robe, set against a black background with a Latin inscription below.
Girolamo Savonarola
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Cesare Borgia
Cesare Borgia
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Alessandro Farnese, duke of Parma and Piacenza
Alessandro Farnese
regent of The Netherlands
Guicciardini, Francesco
Francesco Guicciardini
Italian historian and statesman
Cosimo de' Medici
Cosimo de’ Medici
ruler of Florence [1389-1464]
Ludovico Sforza
Ludovico Sforza
duke of Milan
Cosimo I
Cosimo I
duke of Florence and Tuscany [1519–1574]
portrait said to depict Caterina Sforza by Lorenzo di Credi
Caterina Sforza
Italian noble
Andrea Doria, detail of a portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo; in the Doria Palace, Rome.
Andrea Doria
Genoese statesman
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Ambrogio di Filippo Spinola, marquis de los Balbases
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Charles Albert of Sardinia-Piedmont
Charles Albert
king of Sardinia-Piedmont
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Alessandro
duke of Florence
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Raimondo Montecuccoli
Austrian field marshal
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Ottavio Piccolomini-Pieri, duca d’Amalfi
Austrian general
Pietro Badoglio.
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Italian general and statesman