Italian Wars
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The Italian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559 in the Italian Peninsula, with subsidiary theatres in Flanders, the Rhineland and Mediterranean Sea. A product of the long-runn
Left to right, top to bottom: Battle of Fornovo, 1495 Battle of Ravenna, 1512 Battle of Marignano, 1515 Battle of Pavia, 1525 Battle of Ceresole, 1544 Battle of St. Quentin, 1557
Italy after the 1454 Peace of Lodi
Louis XII
Emperor Maximilian, c. 1508
Italian War of 1494–1495
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The First Italian War, or Charles VIII's Italian War, was the opening phase of the Italian Wars. The war pitted Charles VIII of France, who had initial Milanese aid, against the Holy Roman Empire, Spa
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…ports of Marseille and Toulon provided direct access to the Mediterranean and thus the ability to pursue his territorial ambitions. In the run-up to the First Italian War, Charles sought to secure the neutrality of other European rulers through a series of treaties. These included the November 1492 Peace of Étaples with…
Entry of French troops in Naples, February 22, 1495, from the Figurative Chronicle of the Fifteenth Century by Melchiorre Ferraiolo
Beatrice d'Este at the age of 18 (1494).
Battle of Fornovo, 6 July 1495.
Francesco II Gonzaga at the Battle of Taro, Jacopo Tintoretto, 1578–1579.