Storia di Milano, vol. 3

The volume traces Milan's turbulent early modern struggles through sequential chapters that combine political narrative and military chronicle: foreign occupation and campaigns, shifting alliances between papal and imperial authorities, recruitment of mercenaries, and local attempts to restore native rule. It recounts plots by exiles and municipal figures, descriptions of sieges and armed engagements, and the civilian cost of conflict, most strikingly a catastrophic explosion at a principal fortress that caused heavy loss and fueled anti-foreign feeling. Interleaved analysis considers motives behind alliances and the impact of warfare on urban institutions and public life.