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  2. 5 days ago · Pietro Candido Decembrio: Life of Filippo Maria Visconti, third Duke of Milan (Vita Philippi Mariae Vicecomitis Mediolanensium) published in 1625, but checked and enlarged from a manuscript in the library of the monks of Saint Ambrose of Milan. cols. 981–1020.

  3. 4 days ago · The Republic of Venice ( Italian: Repubblica di Venezia; Venetian: Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic, [a] traditionally known as La Serenissima, [b] was a sovereign state and maritime republic in parts of the present-day Italian Republic that existed for 1,100 years from 697 until 1797. [2]

  4. 12 hours ago · The Lady with an Ermine features a woman, Cecilia Gallerani, a mistress of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, holding an ermine. Photo: wikipedia.org, @Leonardo da Vinci Source: UGC. Artist: Leonardo da Vinci ; Year: 1489–1491; Medium: Oil on walnut panel; Price: $450 million; The Lady with an Ermine is one of the four surviving portraits of ...

  5. 3 days ago · He was also Duke of Milan from 1540. From 1555, he was Lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands. The son of Emperor Charles V and Isabella of Portugal, Philip inherited his father's Spanish Empire in 1556 and succeeded to the Portuguese throne in 1580 following a dynastic crisis.

  6. 4 days ago · Claude-Louis-Hector, duke de Villars (born May 8, 1653, Moulins, Fr.—died June 17, 1734, Turin, Italy) was a French soldier, King Louis XIV’s most successful commander in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14).

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  7. 3 days ago · Leopold's younger son Archduke Charles became ruler of the Duchy of Milan, a possession considered vital to the security of Austria's southern border. [45] Maria Anna of Neuburg , Charles's pro-Austrian second wife

  8. 5 days ago · William Augustus, duke of Cumberland (born April 15, 1721, London, Eng.—died Oct. 31, 1765, London) was a British general, nicknamed “Butcher Cumberland” for his harsh suppression of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. His subsequent military failures led to his estrangement from his father, King George II (reigned 1727–60).

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