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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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Document in which Francesco Sforza, duke of Milan, granted commercial rights to Giovanni Merlo and his descendants, September 7, 1452; it allowed them to buy and sell goods in Milan.
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Muzio Attendolo Sforza
Italian condottiere
Niccolò Piccinino
Italian mercenary
Sir John Hawkwood
Anglo-Italian mercenary
Francesco Ferruccio
Italian military leader
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Fra Bartolomeo: portrait of Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola
Italian preacher
Cesare Borgia
Cesare Borgia
Italian noble
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
Ambrogio Spinola
Ambrogio di Filippo Spinola, marquis de los Balbases
Spanish military officer
Charles Albert of Sardinia-Piedmont
Charles Albert
king of Sardinia-Piedmont
Alessandro
duke of Florence
Montecuccoli, portrait by an unknown artist, 1670; in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Austrian field marshal
Piccolomini-Pieri, Ottavio, duca d'Amalfi
Ottavio Piccolomini-Pieri, duca d’Amalfi
Austrian general
Pietro Badoglio.
Pietro Badoglio
Italian general and statesman