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Ambrosian Republic

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Ambrosian Republic

Government of Milan, Italy, 1447–50. Consisting of 24 local dignitaries, it was established when Duke Filippo Maria Visconti died without an heir in 1447. It ended when military leader Francesco Sforza occupied the city in 1450.

Named in honour of St Ambrose, Milan's patron saint, the short-lived republic was beset with difficulties – divisions within the ruling group, discontent from the lower middle classes, rebellion in subject cities, and the hostility of Venice, brought the republic close to collapse. In the autumn of 1449 Francesco Sforza, a condottiere formerly in Duke Filippo Maria Visconti's employ and married to the duke's illegitimate daughter, besieged the city. In March 1450 the republic surrendered and Sforza was installed as duke of Milan.



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A second group of 125 letters were written during the three years from the summer of 1446 to the autumn of 1449 when Barbara served a Luogotenente in Friuli and a savio grande during the crisis occasioned by the death of Filippo Maria Visconti, the creation of Ambrosian Republic, and the rise of Francesco Sforza to power.
La raccolta canonica delle "Epistole". (Reviews) by Kohl, Benjamin G. / Renaissance Quarterly
The paucity, to be frank, of documents from this period (most were destroyed in the revolution which led to the Ambrosian Republic in 1447) allowed him to make summaries of all of them: his summary, in Italian, of the document discussed below is excellent (Gli atti, pt.
Leonardi Bruni, Florentine traitor? Bruni, the Medici, and an Aretine ... by Field, Arthur / Renaissance Quarterly
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