why did Napoleon invade Italy?
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The history of Italy in the Early Modern periodwas partially characterized by foreign domination. Following the Italian Renaissance Wars (1494–1559), the south of Italy, the Duchy of Milan and other minor Italian states were under direct or indirect control of Habsburg Spain, while the Republic of Venice, the Duchy of Florence, the Papal States and the Republic of Genoa remained independent.
Piedmont-Savoy gained independence from France at the Peace of Cateau Cambrésis due to the role played by the duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy in the battle of St Quentinduring the Italian War of 1551-1559. The House of Medici kept ruling Florence, thanks to an agreement signed with Charles V in 1537, and was later recognized as the ruling family of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany by Pope Pius V. The same Pope arranged the Holy League, a coalition of Venice and other maritime states that defeated the invading Ottoman forces at the naval battle of Lepanto(1571).
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