[tcuoohjohn]

This was back in the days when Banking was highly competitve. Between the Sforzas, Medicis, and Montefeltros it was a highly charged atmosphere when hostile takeovers had a decidedly different meaning.

I suspect that Dante Aligheri smelled this one out early on and his Inferno has the Duke of Urbino gnawing on the head of his son in hell.

[stop_fascism]

Pretty darn prescient, seeing how the Inferno is set in 1300, and this plot is in 1478!