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| Introduction; from Ferrante I to Charles VIII | |
| The distant origins of the Italian wars: political relations between France and Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries | |
| The Angevin bid for Naples, 1380-1480 | |
| The inception of the reign of King Ferrante I of Naples: the events of summer 1458 in the light of documentation from Milan | |
| Towards the Tragedia d'Italia: Ferrante and Galeazzo Maria Sforza: friendly enemies and hostile allies | |
| Between Milan and Naples: Ippolita Maria Sforza, duchess of Calabria | |
| The politics of protection in late 15th- century Italy: Florence and the failed Sienese exiles' plot of May 1485 | |
| Personalities and pressures: Italian involvement in the French invasion of 1494 | |
| Court and household in Ferrara, 1494 | |
| The Romagna campaign of 1494: a significant military encounter | |
| Francesco II Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua, 'Liberator of Italy' | |
| Political and cultural implications of secret diplomacy: Commynes and Ferrara in the light of unpublished documents | |
| The Roman barons and the French descent into Italy | |
| Castles and cannon in the Naples campaign of 1494-95 | |
| Venice, the French invasion and the Apulian ports | |
| 'Il semble que ce soit là un vrai Paradis terrestre': Charles VIII's conquest of Naples and the French Renaissance | |
| Insititutional and social continuities in the kingdom of Naples between 1443 and 1528 | |
| Machiavelli, italianità and the French invasion of 1494 | |
| 'Traitres Lombardi': the expedition of Charles VIII in the Lombard sources up to the mid-16th century | |
| Milan in the face of the Italian wars (1494-1535): between the crisis of the state and the affirmation of urban autonomy | |
| Appendix | |
| Index of microfilms on Italian diplomatic history, 1454-94, in the Ilardi collection at the Sterling Library, Yale University | |
| Index | |
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