Its leaders, called "vicars in temporal matters," included Montefeltro of Urbino and Malatesta da Rimini. Annexed by Italy after the Franco-Prussian War, this entity had been organized largely from Lombard lands conquered at the request of Stephen II, a donation of Pepin III. Peaking in the early Renaissance, over the next five centuries its power waned, and a 1929 treaty with Mussolini's government left only one of its members independent. For ten points, name this collection of Appenine and Latinian towns and city-states, whose last remaining state is the Vatican City.
Its leaders, called "vicars in temporal matters," included Montefeltro of Urbino and Malatesta da Rimini. Annexed by Italy after the Franco-Prussian War, this entity had been organized largely from Lombard lands conquered at the request of Stephen II, a donation of Pepin III. Peaking in the early Renaissance, over the next five centuries its power waned, and a 1929 treaty with Mussolini's government left only one of its members independent. For ten points, name this collection of Appenine and Latinian towns and city-states, whose last remaining state is the Vatican City.
Its leaders, called "vicars in temporal matters," included Montefeltro of Urbino and Malatesta da Rimini.
{Papal States}