Francesco I Sforza
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Francesco I Sforza was an Italian condottiere who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its duke from 1450 until his death. Renowned for his military skill and political acumen,
Portrait of Francesco Sforza (c. 1460) by Bonifacio Bembo. Sforza insisted on being shown in his worn dirty old campaigning hat. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
Bianca Maria Visconti and Francesco Sforza in Famiglie celebri italiane, by Pompeo Litta Biumi (1823)
Muzio Attendolo Sforza
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Muzio Attendolo Sforza was an Italian condottiero. Founder of the Sforza dynasty, he led a Bolognese-Florentine army at the Battle of Casalecchio. In his later years, he served Queen Joanna II of Napl
Francesco I Sforza
…Milan by Emperor Maximilian I. Francesco Sforza was born in Cigoli, near San Miniato, Tuscany, one of the seven illegitimate sons of the condottiero Muzio Sforza and Lucia de Martini. He was the brother of Alessandro Sforza. He spent his childhood in Tricarico (in the modern Basilicata), the marquisate of which…
Muzio Attendolo Sforza
Muzio Attendolo in a 15th-century miniature
Muzio Attendolo