Chapter

 1 2,2 |         of Naples, the duchy of Milan, the magnificent republic
 2 2,3 |         with him. ~The duchy of Milan belonged nominally to John
 3 2,3 |        cardinal, he returned to Milan some days after the assassination
 4 2,3 |       left free between Naples, Milan, Florence, and Venice, petty
 5 3,4 |        great Francis I, Duke of Milan, was lord of Pesaro; the
 6 3,4 |          about 1480, by Naples, Milan, Florence, and Ferrara,
 7 4,1 |      compromised by the Duke of Milan's proposition, changed the
 8 4,1 |        own interests: Florence, Milan's old ally, was abandoning
 9 4,1 |         proposed to the Duke of Milan that he should resign the
10 4,1 |       Naples; ~That the Duke of Milan should grant a passage to
11 4,1 |       lances; ~That the Duke of Milan should permit the King of
12 4,1 |        Lastly, that the Duke of Milan should lend the King of
13 4,1 |        Sforza over the duchy of Milan against anyone who might
14 4,4 |    drive Ludovico Sforza out of Milan before he could get help
15 4,5 |        which called him back to Milan were so important, he said,
16 5,3 |       the claims of the Duke of Milan over Sarzano and Pietra
17 5,5 |     Ascanio Sforza, the Duke of Milan's brother, and Cardinal
18 5,8 |      King of Spain, the Duke of Milan, and the republic of Venice,
19 5,8 |         and Naples. The Duke of Milan promised for his part to
20 6,2 |    while the combined forces of Milan and Venice exceeded a total
21 6,4 |        changes; for the Duke of Milan and the republics of Florence
22 8,4 | expedition against the duchy of Milan, on which, as we explained
23 8,4 |       he had made an entry into Milan, to be used to further his
24 8,4 |         France. The conquest of Milan should be undertaken so
25 10,1| powerful enemy that the Duke of Milan had made for himself. Maximilian,
26 10,1|       not without reason, that, Milan once conquered, he would
27 10,1|    Trivulce was on the march to Milan. ~Seeing the rapidity of
28 10,1|         charge of the castle of Milan. In vain did his friends
29 10,1|   departure, the French entered Milan. Ten days later Bernardino
30 10,1|      and he at once started for Milan, where he was received with
31 10,1|         day from his arrival at Milan the conqueror made some
32 10,2|       know, staying with him at Milan so long as he remained there,
33 10,2|         fortunes of the Duke of Milan, his brother; and when the
34 10,3| demonstrations were so noisy at Milan, that Trivulce, judging
35 10,3|    Ascanio and Ludovico entered Milan amid the acclamations of
36 10,3|        to besiege the castle of Milan while Ludovico should cross
37 10,4|    position between Novarra and Milan, cutting off all communication
38 10,4|       as we know, had stayed at Milan, learned the news of this
39 11,2|   Lombardy was only a halt, and Milan was evidently but the stage
40 13,2|    written, Caesar departed for Milan, where Louis XII had just