Sesino - Johann Jakob Trivulzio

Johann Jakob Trivulzio was one of the most consequential condottieri of the Italian Wars — a Milanese nobleman who switched allegiance to France and commanded the army that crushed Ludovico Sforza at Novara in 1500. His lordship over Mesocco in the Graubünden came through inheritance and was legally contested for much of his tenure. These small billon pieces were struck across a thirty-year window during which Trivulzio was almost perpetually on campaign, administering his Alpine territories largely at a distance from the French court and the Italian battlefields that consumed his attention.