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Article: The French Decent into Renaissance Italy: 1492-95, Antecedents and Effects.
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- December 1, 1997
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Edited by David Abulafia Variorum ix + 496 pp. [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-86078-550-5
The French invasion of Italy to capture the kingdom of Naples in 1494 ushered in a struggle for power that affected Europe as well as the Peninsula. These events were seen as momentous at the time, engaging a generation of historians and political observers of whom Machiavelli and Guicciardini are only the best known. Later writers followed their lead; in the late nineteenth century, the causes, courses and consequences of the French invasion engendered intense and virtually unsurpassed archival research by French and Italian historians.
However the study of diplomatic ...