Being especially adverse toward Sforza, they entered into negotiations for peace with Venice, which, also faced with Sforza's threat, was willing to come to terms, albeit dictated by herself.

During Sforza's reign, Florence was under the command of Cosimo de ' Medici and the two rulers became close friends.

During Bona Sforza's government, Ostuni continued to enjoyed a liberal and magnanimous regime.

Sforza's military qualities were mostly needed against Florence and the Pope.

However, when Sforza's troops intervened, Alopo freed him and Joan gave him the fiefdoms of Benevento and Manfredonia.

Sforza's first wife was Antonia Salimbeni, who died in 1411, who had given him Bosio ( 1411 – 1476 ), who was count of Santa Fiora.

Again the war shifted to Lombardy, and Piccinino, having defeated and surrounded Sforza at Martinengo, demanded of the visconti the lordship of Piacenza as the price of Sforza's capture.

There were three principal assassins involved in Sforza's death: Carlo Visconti, Gerolamo Olgiati and Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani, all fairly high-ranking officials at the Milanese court.

After carefully studying Sforza's movements, the conspirators made their move on the day after Christmas, 1476, the official day of Santo Stefano, the namesake of the church where the deed was to be committed.

Lampugnani would be cornered and killed by one of Sforza's guards, but Auditore found a Venetian coin on the body prompting him to continue an investigation.

However, Sforza's wife Bianca was there, and led the defense until he relieved the city.

But ultimately the forces were brought together at Caravaggio, and both Sforza's Milanese and the Venetian army under Micheletto Attendolo gathered there.

In Milan, Sforza's enemies worked continually against him.

To the Milanese, Sforza's victory now seemed certain, but he found his Venetian allies beginning to have doubts about their Captain-General.

Venice went behind Sforza's back and signed a peace treaty with the Republic.

Image: Ogrody Królewskie Wawel 2006-06-20 01. jpg | Queen Bona Sforza's gardens ( 1536 ).

Because of the political situation of the time, nothing happened until 1457, when Francesco Sforza's edict, underwritten by Cicco Simonetta, marked the start of design work.

After Francesco Sforza's signoria ( 1433 – 1443 ), Urbisaglia came back under Tolentino's domination.

Though Adolf Hitler succeeded in garnering the support of many German industrialists, prominent traditionalists openly and secretly opposed his policies of euthanasia, genocide, and attacks on organized religion, including Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henning von Tresckow, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, and the monarchist Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

Polk worked for Jackson's policies as speaker, and Van Buren's when he succeeded Jackson in 1837 ; he appointed committees with Democratic chairs and majorities, including the New York radical C. C. Cambreleng as Chair of the Ways and Means Committee, although he maintained the facade of traditional bipartisanship.

Born in Treviso, he succeeded Pope Boniface VIII, but was unable to carry out his policies.

Della Rovere then succeeded by dexterous diplomacy in tricking the weakened Cesare Borgia into supporting him by offering him money and continued papal backing for Borgia policies in the Romagna, promises which he disregarded upon election.

In general the Democrats enacted their policies at the national level, while the Whigs succeeded in passing modernization projects in most states.

Frederick IV of Denmark-Norway, another cousin of Charles XII, succeeded Christian V in 1699 and continued his anti-Swedish policies.

Karmal's policies failed to bring peace to the war-ravaged country, and in 1986 he was succeeded as PDPA General Secretary by Mohammad Najibullah.

He was succeeded by his son, Rocky, who drastically altered his father's long-standing policies.

Yet " Justinian I succeeded in imposing his ecclesiastical policies on the papacy and Pope Gregory the Great maintained an attitude of political loyalty to the empire ."< ref > T.

These policies have succeeded in creating a significant urban Malay middle class.

After Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Short said that the change offered " a new beginning ", and hinted that she might re-join the parliamentary Labour party if Brown changed the policies that had caused her to leave.

He continued to pursue his conservative financial policies during the first few years of his reign, and his aims of balancing the country's budget eventually succeeded, helped by an increase in oil production.

Kublai Khan, after having conquered all of China and established the Yuan Dynasty, died in 1294, and was succeeded by his grandson Temur Khan, who continued Kublai's policies.

The matter was referred to Al Serrano in the city's Human Rights Department, who succeeded in overturning the policies at all the stores in question.

That the Qing state succeeded not only in conquering China but also in establishing a capable administration was due in large measure to the foresight and policies of Hong Taiji.

She figured prominently in the issue of academic freedom when she sought and ultimately succeeded in having Stanford University economist Edward A. Ross fired for making speeches favoring Democrat William Jennings Bryan and favoring racism against Chinese American " coolies ", outlining eugenics policies directed against Chinese people and other racial groups, and for his collectivist economic teachings.

It was succeeded by the more broadly based Anti-Administration Party, which opposed the fiscal and foreign policies of U. S. President George Washington.

Clark was succeeded by Richardson Dilworth, who continued the policies of his predecessor.

In the 1998 election campaign, however, Fischer strongly counter-attacked One Nation, mainly on the grounds of their " flat tax " economic policies, and succeeded in holding the NPA's losses to one Senate seat in Queensland.

Later that year, she was one of the Fianna Fáil TDs who criticised the policies of Taoiseach Jack Lynch in relation to Northern Ireland and was a prominent supporter of Charles Haughey, who succeeded him as Taoiseach in December 1979.

Historically, the campaign has succeeded in obtaining strong environmental policies from banks such as Citi, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and others.

The term sometimes excludes George Washington, who, though a Virginia planter, was closely aligned with the policies of the Federalist Party, and was succeeded by his Vice President, John Adams of Massachusetts.

Having opposed Yeltsin's secessionist policies during his tenure as Soviet Premier, he was removed from his post as Russian SFSR Premier and succeeded in his post by acting Premier Oleg Lobov.

Conservatives succeeded in inserting several key planks into the party platform, some of which were implicitly critical of the President's own policies.