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| | Nicolo Machiavelli's The Prince |
 | | Duke Filippo being dead, the Milanese enlisted Francesco Sforza against the Venetians, and he, having overcome the enemy at Caravaggio, /XII.3/ allied himself with them to crush the Milanese, his masters. |
 | | His father, Sforza, having been engaged by Queen Johanna /XII.4/ of Naples, left her unprotected, so that she was forced to throw herself into the arms of the King of Aragon, in order to save her kingdom. |
 | | They had afterwards for their captains Bartolomeo da Bergamo, Roberto da San Severino, the count of Pitigliano,/XII.7/ and the like, under whom they had to dread loss and not gain, as happened afterwards at Vaila, /XII.8/ where in one battle they lost that which in eight hundred years they had acquired with so much trouble. |
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