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At the Battle of Fornovo, king Charles VIII of France manages to defeat the forces of the Italian League albeit the victory comes at a heavy cost. Leaving his cousin Louis of Orleans behind as duke of Milan, Charles returns to France to regroup and rearm his battered forces in Provence - thus avoiding striking his head on a lintel in Amboise. Meanwhile in Florence, Girolamo Savonarola crushes all domestic political opposition prompting Pope Alexander VI to authorise his son Cesare Borgia to march into Florentine territory and enforce the papal interdict of the messianic friar. Doing so with ease, Borgia is proclaimed duke of Florence by his troops and the Guelph nobles and citizens.
Two years later, Charles returns to Italy to defend his dynasty's right to the throne of Milan, occupying the Duchy of Savoy on his march into the peninsular. This second invasion leads Cesare and Alexander to force the republics of Siena and Lucca into subservience of Borgian Florence in opposition of the French intervention. The Venetian Republic also rallies to the side of anti-French coalition. As Charles marshalls his forces in Milan, Ercole I d'Este, known as The Diamond, duke of Modena and Ferrara marries his son Alfonso to a French princess partly to ingratiate himself with the French behemoth to the North and partly in reaction to the execution of Savonarola by the Florentine authorities. In return for his loyalty Louis of Orleans sweeps down south and aids Ercole in conquering the Duchy of Mantua. Although technically still an independent prince styling himself divus, The Diamond has in effect become a French satrap.
The states of Northern Italy are thus posed for another round of brutal warfare between those subservient to the King of France led by the Duke of Milan, Louis of Orleans, and those under the Papal aegis of Cesare Borgia. However, events are still in flux. The Emperor has not yet responded, the matter of the Neapolitan throne is still disputed and who's to say that Louis of Orleans will continue to do his cousin's bidding?
EDIT: The map won the contest!
Two years later, Charles returns to Italy to defend his dynasty's right to the throne of Milan, occupying the Duchy of Savoy on his march into the peninsular. This second invasion leads Cesare and Alexander to force the republics of Siena and Lucca into subservience of Borgian Florence in opposition of the French intervention. The Venetian Republic also rallies to the side of anti-French coalition. As Charles marshalls his forces in Milan, Ercole I d'Este, known as The Diamond, duke of Modena and Ferrara marries his son Alfonso to a French princess partly to ingratiate himself with the French behemoth to the North and partly in reaction to the execution of Savonarola by the Florentine authorities. In return for his loyalty Louis of Orleans sweeps down south and aids Ercole in conquering the Duchy of Mantua. Although technically still an independent prince styling himself divus, The Diamond has in effect become a French satrap.
The states of Northern Italy are thus posed for another round of brutal warfare between those subservient to the King of France led by the Duke of Milan, Louis of Orleans, and those under the Papal aegis of Cesare Borgia. However, events are still in flux. The Emperor has not yet responded, the matter of the Neapolitan throne is still disputed and who's to say that Louis of Orleans will continue to do his cousin's bidding?
EDIT: The map won the contest!
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Was it part of Charles VIII ambitions to conquer the Italian peninsula?