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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 5393659, member: 89314&quot;]Italy MILAN&nbsp; Ludovico Maria Sforza, il Moro, Regent for nephew Giovanni Galeazzo Maria&nbsp;&nbsp; Testone n.d. (1481-94) with both busts</p><p><br /></p><p>A typical Italian Renaissance history.&nbsp; The 7-year-old Gian Galeazzo Sforza inherited the duchy after his father, Galeazzo Maria, Ludovico&#039;s brother, was assassinated in 1476.&nbsp; After a&nbsp; bitter struggle for the regency with the boy&#039;s mother, Bona of Savoy, Ludovico emerged as&nbsp; victor in 1481 and seized control of the government of Milan and ruled as Regent for 13 years. In 1494 Gian Galeazzo died under suspicious circumstances and Ludovico became duke. However, in 1498&nbsp; Louis XII of France, who had a hereditary claim to Milan through his Visconti grandmother, descended upon Milan.&nbsp; Ludovico was captured in April 1500 and spent the rest of his life in imprisonment in France.&nbsp; He died in 1508. In 1512 Swiss mercenaries under the Pope &amp; Emperor would restore his son Massimiliano as Duke.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1232191[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1232192[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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