Editing City-state (section)

====Examples of Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance====

*[[Republic of Florence]], [[Duchy of Milan]], [[Duchy of Ferrara]],<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1 = Haney
 | first1 = John
 | title = Cesare Borgia
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=R1MbAQAAMAAJ
 | series = World leaders past & present
 | location = New York
 | publisher = Chelsea House
 | date = 1987
 | page = 74
 | isbn = 9780877545958
 | access-date = 4 October 2020
 | quote = [...] the duchy of Ferrara — a small but strategically important city-state situated between Venice and the Romagna.
}}
</ref> [[History of San Marino|San Marino]], [[Duchy of Modena and Reggio]], [[Duchy of Urbino]], [[Duchy of Mantua]] and the [[Republic of Lucca]].

*The powerful [[maritime republics]]: [[Republic of Venice]], [[Republic of Genoa]], [[Republic of Amalfi]], [[Republic of Pisa]], [[Republic of Ancona]] and [[Duchy of Gaeta]].