“Margaret’s envoys increased pressure. Papists invoked Christian unity. Rome’s memory of the 1527 sack remained raw. Genoese captains quietly calculated profit margins: protected convoy versus independent risk. Spanish tercios in Naples stood as silent reminder... open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...
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The Real Spanish Princess: Margaret of Austria and the Southern System—When Peace Signed at Cambrai Lit the Mediterranean on Fire
Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.