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Historical person
1351–1402
Gian Galeazzo Visconti was the first duke of Milan and one of the most ambitious rulers of late medieval Italy. He expanded Visconti power across northern and central Italy through war, diplomacy and marriage, nearly creating a dominant Italian state before his death.
Simon Fairfax’s The Fight for Florence is set in 1402, Florence faces the advance of Milanese power under the Duke of Milan, while the politics of the papacy and the rivalries of the Italian states make loyalty difficult to judge.
Series
The Condottieri series follows Flavio Sabatini through late-medieval Italy, where city-states, papal factions, mercenary captains and local loyalties compete for power. The books use the world of the Western Schism and Italian city-state warfare to place Sabatini between hired service, private survival and the demands of towns threatened…
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