valmaggia

Updated: June 5, 2025

They asserted that, a century before, an ejected duke of Milan had ceded these valleys to the bishopric of Coire. The Confederates of the twelve cantons subjected Lugano, Locarno, and Valmaggia. The French were driven out of Lombardy, and the young duke Maximilian Sforza, son of him who had been dispossessed by them, was reinstated in his father's inheritance at Milan.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 : The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation