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Sante Bentivoglio
Italian leader
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effect on Bentivoglio family rule
- In Bentivoglio Family
…Bentivogli chose as his successor Sante (1424–63), a little-known member of the family who had been reared in Florence. Nominally only a member of the Sixteen, the city’s ruling body, Sante, in fact, ruled Bologna. He reached an extremely important agreement with the papacy (Capitula, 1447) defining the extent of…
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