Milan Undone
Subtitle: Contested Sovereignties in the Italian Wars
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780674248724
Subjects: Italy, history
Description: "In 1499, Milan was an independent state with a stable government. But over the next thirty years, it descended into chaos amid the Italian Wars. John Gagné details Milan's social and political breakdown. The Renaissance may have been the cradle of the modern nation-state, but it was also a time when sophisticated sovereigns collapsed"--