Article: Herculean Ferrara, Ercole D'este (1471-1505) and the Invention of a Ducal Capital. (book reviews)

Thomas Tuohy Cambridge University Press xxiv + 534 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-5521-46471-4

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.

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