France and the Hapsburg fight to gain ascendancy over Italy, involved are most of the Italian city states or lordships and even most of the European states. The war remains for more than sixty years on the Italian peninsula.
The Town of Fine Towers. For 160 years the city flourished, trading and cultivating saffron. In the end weakened by the Black Death and decreasing trade income, the city submitted itself to the Signoria of Florence in 1352.