Lives of the Milanese Tyrants includes biographies of two dukes of Milan--the powerful Filippo Maria Visconti and the mercenary captain Francesco Sforza--written by the most important Milanese humanist of the early fifteenth century, Pier Candido Decembrio. Both works are translated into English here for the first time from new Latin texts.
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Lives of the Milanese Tyrants includes biographies of two dukes of Milan--the powerful Filippo Maria Visconti and the mercenary captain Francesco Sforza--written by the most important Milanese humanist of the early fifteenth century, Pier Candido Decembrio. Both works are translated into English here for the first time from new Latin texts.
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