Italy

Italy
- Divided into several city-states which formally recognize the supremacy of the Holy
Roman Empire, there are more and Papal State, the Republic of Venice (Venice) and
Kingdom of the Two Sicily (Sicily and Naples)
- In the XIII. first century disappears government of German emperor, and then weakens the impact of the Pope, it
conducive to the rise of the Italian city's aristocracy
- Condottieri - leaders of mercenary armies in the service of Italian cities, often imposed
as the true masters in those same cities
- Rivalry of Venice and Genoa for the control of Mediterranean trade
- Florence - XIII. st. richest city and banking center, in the XV. century power will
in the hands of the Medici family
- Sicilian Kingdom - in the XI. st. rule over the Normans, then, in the XII. and XIII. st,
German emperors, but Anţuvinci and, since 1282 the Aragonese