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The BorgiasIt was also of enormous strategic importance, offering the possibility, once firmly unified, of a state as considerable as those of Naples, Venice, or Florence. It was this area that Alexander VI intended, with the help of the French, to unite into a duchy for his son. In October, shortly after Louis XII’s triumphant entry into Milan, Alexander VI announced that вЂthe vicars of Rimini, Pesaro, Imola, ForlГ¬, Camerino and Faenza, as well as the Duke of Urbino, feudatories of the Church in Rome, have failed to pay their annual census to the Apostolic Chamber,’ according to Burchard’s report, вЂand so [the pope] has removed their titles and declared them forfeit.’ Burchard added that the city of Milan — by which he meant the new French government — had loaned 45,000 ducats to the pope to raise troops to retake these territories: вЂThe Duke of Valence,’ he reported, вЂcaptain of these troops, has received this sum in the name of the Church.’ On November 18 Cesare returned to Rome for a brief visit, entering the city late that afternoon through one of the smaller gates to avoid detection ...» |
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