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Excerpt from A History of the Commonwealth of Florence, Vol. 3 of 4: From the Earliest Independence of the Commune to the Fall of the Republic in 1531
Changes in Italy produced by the peace between Florence and N aples Turks driven from Otranto - The Pope and Venice make alliance Quarrel of Venice with the Duke of Ferrara - Motives of the Vene tians - and of the Pope - Ground of quarrel b'etween Milan and Florence - Duke of Calabria begins the war - State of Rome The Pope engages Malatesta di Rimini - Battle near Rome - Papal troops victorious - Death of Malatesta in Rome - Venetian suc cesses against the Duke of Ferrara - The Pope suddenly makes peace - His motives-conference at Cremona - Duke of Calabria routs the Venetians at Argenta - War against Venice - Venice makes a separate peace with Milan - to the anger of the other con federates - Florence and Milan - Venice regains by negotiation all she had lost in the war - Peace accepted by Florence and N aples But not by the Pope - His rage - State of rome-death of Pope Sixtus IV.
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