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... engaged his attention : the coinage , the people's dress , and the organization of the army . Among the rights of Islam sovereignty , those of the Prince to coin money and to have his name mentioned in the public prayers on Friday ...
... engaged his attention : the coinage , the people's dress , and the organization of the army . Among the rights of Islam sovereignty , those of the Prince to coin money and to have his name mentioned in the public prayers on Friday ...
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... engaged in war with Florence and Venice , and Sforza entered the service of the Florentines . His operations were , however , unsuccessful , and he found himself entangled in a dangerous position near the castle of Martinengo , when he ...
... engaged in war with Florence and Venice , and Sforza entered the service of the Florentines . His operations were , however , unsuccessful , and he found himself entangled in a dangerous position near the castle of Martinengo , when he ...
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... engaged the services of Francesco Sforza , who thus became for a while the servant of those whom he had expected to command , though with the secret hope of reversing the position . It belongs not to our subject to detail the campaigns ...
... engaged the services of Francesco Sforza , who thus became for a while the servant of those whom he had expected to command , though with the secret hope of reversing the position . It belongs not to our subject to detail the campaigns ...
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... engaged ; and Pope Nicholas V. summoned a congress at Rome to consider of the means of making head against the common enemy . None of the Italian Powers , however , was sincere in these negotiations ; not even Nicholas himself , who had ...
... engaged ; and Pope Nicholas V. summoned a congress at Rome to consider of the means of making head against the common enemy . None of the Italian Powers , however , was sincere in these negotiations ; not even Nicholas himself , who had ...
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... engaged the services of Sforza Attendolo , a re- nowned condottiere , and father of Francis Sforza , whose history we have already related . Sforza Attendolo , who had been con- stable to Joanna II . , but through the enmity of ...
... engaged the services of Sforza Attendolo , a re- nowned condottiere , and father of Francis Sforza , whose history we have already related . Sforza Attendolo , who had been con- stable to Joanna II . , but through the enmity of ...
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