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Jun 24, 2020 · Charles VIII, King of France, DS En Route to Invade Italy! 1p document in French signed by King Charles VIII (1470-1498), also known as Charles the Affable, as "Charles" at center. Signed at Lyons, France on March 18, 1494, en route to invade Italy. The king's large signature measures 2.5" 1 x 1.25" alone.
Abstract. In 1494 King Charles VIII of France (1483–98) decided to extend French influence southwards and led a force of 30,000 men into Italy. The invasio
The First Italian War, sometimes referred to as the Italian War of 1494 or Charles VIII's Italian War, was the opening phase of the Italian Wars. The war pitted Charles VIII of France, who had initial Milanese aid, against the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and an alliance of Italian powers led by Pope Alexander VI. Pope Innocent VIII, in conflict with King Ferdinand I of Naples over Ferdinand's ...
Dec 17, 2019 · In 1495 an epidemic of a new and terrible disease broke out among the soldiers of Charles VIII of France when he invaded Naples in the first of the Italian Wars, and its subsequent impact on the peoples of Europe was devastating – this was syphilis, or grande verole, the “great pox”.
The Italian War of 1494–1498 began when Ludovico Sforza, then Regent of Milan, invited Charles VIII of France to invade Italy, using the Angevin claim to the Kingdom of Naples as a pretext. This in turn was driven by the intense rivalry between Ludovico's wife, Beatrice d'Este , and that of his nephew Gian Galeazzo Sforza , son of Isabella of ...
The first was the League of 1495 between Pope Alexander VI, the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I, Aragon’s Ferdinand II, Venice, and Milan, in opposition to Charles VIII of France, who had invaded Italy in 1494. The allies forced the French out of Italy in 1496.
Dec 19, 2011 · In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex ...
