CiteBicocca, La
Bicocca, La lä bēkôk´kä [key], former village, Lombardy, N Italy, now part of Milan. There, in 1522, the vicomte de Lautrec , commanding a French army and Swiss mercenaries, was defeated by a combined Milanese, Spanish, and German force in the Italian Wars .
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