Peace of Lodi
April 9, 1454
Milan, Venice, Florence, Naples, and the Papal States signed a general peace and defensive alliance after decades of near-continuous war. The arrangement would hold for forty years and underwrite the Italian Renaissance's golden age. Patrons had money to spend on painters instead of pikemen. The balance of power it created has been cited as one of the earliest functioning international equilibria in European diplomacy.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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