Question

Two answers required. One of these cities agreed to partition the other city’s lands with Louis XII in the Treaty of Blois (“blwah”). A treaty between these two cities that set their border at the Adda River established forty years of peace through the Most Holy League. Pope Alexander VI arranged an alliance named for one of these cities after the other invited Charles VIII to invaded Naples. Thirty years of war between (10[1])these two cities ended with the Treaty of Lodi. One of these cities was granted to Francis I after the War of the League of Cambrai, which began as a coalition against the other. A condottiero (-5[1])conspired with one of these city’s Council of Ten to betray the other city’s Ambrosian Republic found after the end (-5[1])of Visconti rule. For 10 points, name these cities ruled respectively by doges of the Dandolo family and dukes of the Sforza family. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Venice AND Milan [accept Venezia in place of “Venice”; accept Milano in place of “Milan”]
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Aaron MarchandCarletonIowa State7110
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BWinona State107-5
Declan CobbWisconsin AWisconsin B127-5
Henry BonWinona StateMinnesota B1510
Alex SmitsWisconsin BWisconsin A15110

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