Milan (Chaos)

From Alternative History

Milan was a duchy in northern Italy. Originally, it was part of the HRE.

1407, Maffeo Servitore, a cunning Florentine diplomat, devised a plan. Florence, Savoy and Venice divided all of Northern Italy except Genoa into spheres of influences, which said three states were allowed to conquer. Otherwise, the big three were supposed to live in peace. Until the 1430s, this is what happened: The little city states (which were near collapse after the difficult 14th century) of Northern Italy were "mopped up" and annexed. Milan was one of the last states to fall, ended up divided between Savoy and Venice; the capital itself fell to the former.

In 1694, after the anti-French War, the new kingdom of Italy received all of Milan in the peace of Amsterdam, to drive a wedge between Savoy and Venice, allies of France.

Its capital, also called Milan, became famous when its governor Benedetto Martini became second emperor of New Rome.