Sabotaj al cruciadei antiotomane sau necesitate politică italiană? Un raport al lui Leonardo Botta din 27 iulie 1475
Journal: Studii și Materiale de Istorie Medie
Year: 2024

On 27 July 1475, Leonardo Botta, Milan’s representative in Venice, wrote to his master, Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza. He informed him that he had convinced Florence’s envoy in the Laguna, Luigi Guicciardini, not to inform the Serenissima that his Signoria had received Pope Sixtus IV’ recent message. The Papal brief had been sent on 1 July, at the request of Venice in the support of Stephen III of Moldavia, the favourite of the republic. Botta’s task had been relatively easy. Guicciardini was a clo