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Azzo Visconti

Milanese leader

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Renaissance politics in Italy

  • In Visconti Family

    …was succeeded by his son Azzo (1302–39), peace was concluded with the pope (1329). A crisis created by Azzo’s death without heirs in 1339 was solved with the election of his uncles Luchino (1292–1349) and Giovanni (1290–1354), younger sons of Matteo I, as joint lords. Under their rule, territory lost…

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