Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...claimed suzerainty over N Italy. The most powerful princes...end of the 15th cent. Italy had fallen into the following...of Aragon; in central Italy, the Papal States, the republics of Siena, Florence, and Lucca, and the cities...outlook from the rest of Italy. Constant warfare among...Genoa, in Lucca, and in Florence (where the Medici rose...flowering of the Italian Renaissance, which permanently changed the civilization of Western Europe. Political...