Ital'ianskie voiny 1492-1518 - Lemon'e A.

The Italian wars of the late 15th and the first half of the 16th centuries were the largest military conflict since the Hundred Years' War, sparking between the two powers of late-medieval Europe: centralized France, which was at the zenith of its power, and Spain, which was just beginning the path to an imperial future under the scepter of two sovereigns, Isabella and Ferdinand. The dispute erupted over the ownership of the Kingdom of Naples and the Duchy of Milan. Italy was politically weak and, split into many city-states, became easy prey for its neighbors.
On the battlefields were knights and warlords whose names rattled across Europe: the Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova, the "great warlord," and the Frenchman Pierre Bayard, "a knight without fear and reproach."
Italian wars changed not only military art.