Francesco Sforza Takes Milan
1450
The mercenary captain married to the last Visconti's illegitimate daughter starved the city into accepting him as duke after the brief Ambrosian Republic. The Sforza dynasty began with a private soldier negotiating his way onto a ducal throne. Milan's court would soon rival Florence for artistic patronage under his cunning son.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.