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Italian War of Louis XII

Years: 1499 - 1503

The Second Italian War (1499–1504), sometimes known as Louis XII's Italian War or the War over Naples, is the second of the Italian Wars; it is fought primarily by Louis XII of France and Ferdinand I of Aragón with the participation of several Italian powers.

In the aftermath of the First Italian War, Louis is determined to press his claim on the thrones of Milan and Naples.

In 1499 Louis XII invades Lombardy and seizes Milan, to which he has a claim in right of his paternal grandmother Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)