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Competition of the City-State

states of the Pope

Starting situation: object of the article Christian Occident with leaving the Crusades.

the Catholic church was implied locally in the secular capacity, through the sovereignty of its vassal States. The Popes become war leaders for this period. Rome, under the aegis extension of the Papal States, thus reached a great influence on Italy, visible on the chart of Europe with leaving the {{S|XIII|E}}. Vis-a-vis Florence, it reigns on very close Tuscany, naming it the Patrimoine of saint Pierre.

Arrived to its Apogee, this influence Temporel suits it to be reduced gradually in the centuries which will follow, until summarizing in the only Vatican City in 1870, which reports the article on the Accords of Lateran .

Florence

Florence, quoted in the beginning not more important than its neighbors, sees her emergence on its area of base, the Toscane, as from this century: with its apogee, the city will cut a Grand-Duchy there.

In Tuscany, the beginning of the century sees the end of tumultuous agitations of the gibelins with the rival Faction S florentines of the white and black guelfes, which resulted in many assassinations in the streets. The regional battle of Montaperti illustrates this influence: the City-State of His loses then the top vis-a-vis Florence, and becomes subjugated; its art and its architecture will not evolve/move any more, with the profit of the city to the Red Lily.

Venice

Among the Repubblicca Marinara such as its rivals Genoa and Pisa, which all benefitted from the time of the Croisades while becoming the ports of transmission at the beginning of the successive quotas in Holy Land, Venice will be able to evolve/move with the most success.

un trade very prisé

the family of Marco Polo, Venetian, returns at the beginning of the century of a fabulous voyage in the distance Orient, which marks a drastic influence on the trade of the city: the Silk route is open! Until the Fall of Constantinople, the Byzantine empire combined of Venetian represents the guard armed with this open door towards the East. Venice is its merchant: intermediary on the sale of spices and various food products appraisals in various course of Europe, it grows rich, and is culturally influenced by it: the Byzantine and Eastern paces of the Place Saint-Marc slice notably with the domes multiplying in Rome and Florence.

évolution géostratégique

1381, Genoa , losing the war, ceases being a city in competition with Venice on trade route.

it last, Pisa , will be dominated by Florence with the Quattrocento according to.

==> consequently, the République of Venice becomes the single maritime power vis-a-vis the Ottoman Empire concerning the control of the the Eastern Mediterranean.

Naples

Naples, consituée in Kingdom of Naples with the south of Italy and Sicily, is not an influential power in this end of the Middle Ages. It will become a vassal state, since conquered in 1442 for the period of Suprématie of the Couronne of Aragon on the the Western Mediterranean. This unit being placed, moreover, under the obedience of the Pope, Naples also appears among the vassal States of papacy. It is to say if it constitutes more one stake that an actor in the events which will follow.

Milan

With the Duché of Milan reigns the Visconti;
the Lombardy is divided between Milan and Venice.

the war: a business of mercenaries

To carry out their Campaigns of war, the cities of Italy call upon troops of mercenaries resulting from foreign nations, which are contemporary Grandes companies guerroyant in France: the Condottiere S.

See too

Internal bonds

History of Italy
Pre-Rebirth (artistic movement of Trecento)

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