Papal States
March 20th, 2004
How rich would Italy have been in the Renaissance if it had united?
How rich would Italy have been in the Rennassiance if all the duchies, republics, papal states and Kingdoms united to form a single United Italian Kingdom? Would it be richer than France, The HRE, Spain and England?
Good Heavens, they would have more money than the debt of the United States. Yes, they would have more money than France, The Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and England probably combined. Italian business men like Lorenzo D’Medici were rich to the tenth power. The problem was that city-states like Milan, Florence, Venice, and Rome hated each other. They literally would hire mercenary armies to fight amongst themselves.
Even though they didn’t unite, they were attacked continuously by France since they had enormous amounts of wealth and puny armies.
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