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People: Garibald I of Bavaria
Topic: Milanese Civil War of 1447-50
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Milanese Civil War of 1447-50

Years: 1447 - 1450

Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, dies in 1447 without a male heir; following the end of the Visconti line, the Ambrosian Republic is enacted.

The Ambrosian Republic takes its name from St. Ambrose, popular patron saint of the city of Milan.

Both the Guelph and the Ghibelline factions work together to bring about the Ambrosian Republic in Milan.

However, the Republic collapses when in 1450 Milan is conquered by Francesco Sforza, of the House of Sforza, which will make Milan one of the leading cities of the Italian Renaissance.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)