Ugolino Visconti (died 1296), better known as Nino, was the Giudice of Gallura from 1275 or 1276 to his death. He was a son of Giovanni Visconti and grandson...

de'Medici in the 17th century. But, for now, Giovanni's bank flourished. Beginning in 1389, Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan expanded his dominion into the...

uxoris would accede to the Sardinian Giudicati of Logudoro (Torres) and Gallura, covering the northern half of the island of Sardinia. He was created a...

Archbishop Giovanni Visconti, the Lordship of Milan was divided between his nephews Matteo II, Galeazzo II and Bernabò. On 17 April 1355, Giovanni Visconti, member...

through a marriage of his sister with Giovanni Visconti, judge of Gallura, he allied himself with the Visconti, the leaders of the Guelphs in Pisa. In...

Ducaa de Milan) was a state in Northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti family...

edition. Bueno de Mesquita, Daniel Meredith. Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (1351–1402). Cambridge University Press. Garuti, Giovanni. Medieval knights...

the Republic of Pisa. Gallura became by marriage – it had been inherited by a woman, Elena – a possession of the House of Visconti, another Pisan family...

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Pisa and then with Genoa. The Judicate of Gallura ended in the year 1288, when the last giudice, Nino Visconti (a friend of Dante Alighieri), was driven...

his fellow grafters, Friar Gomita (a corrupt friar in Gallura eventually hanged by Nino Visconti – see Purgatorio VIII – for accepting bribes to let prisoners...

splendor for Modugno. Azzo Visconti was loved by the population and his government was fair and balanced: when he entrusted Domenico de Afflicti from Bari with...

between Italy and North Africa. In 1215 the Pisan Lamberto Visconti, husband of Elena of Gallura, forced the judikessa Benedetta of Cagliari to give him...

Venetians was a response to the threatening expansion of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan. Control over the northeast main land routes was also a...

French domination from 1394 to 1409, Genoa came under the rule of the Visconti of Milan. Genoa lost Sardinia to Aragon, Corsica to internal revolt, and...

Having received the support of the archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Visconti, he defeated Giovanni di Vico, lord of Viterbo, moving against Galeotto Malatesta...

republic [de] To the Principality of Salerno from 1039 to 1052 To the Visconti from 1353 to 1356 To France from 1396 to 1409. To the Visconti from 1421...

notably, the emperors gave their backing to the Visconti of Milan, and King Wenceslaus made Gian Galeazzo Visconti the duke of Milan in 1395. Other families...

Maça family, lords of Gallura, became extinct, a trial began, that led to the division of the whole region; the part called Gallura Gemini was obtained...

the dominion of a military company, which had Marco from the House of Visconti as its leader and hostage at the same time. Later the republic was repeatedly...

Paradise. Purg. XX, 136. Fra Gomita: Chancellor of Nino Visconti and Governor of the giudicato of Gallura, in Sardinia—at the time a possession of Pisa. He...

– 1252?) Federico Visconti (1254–1277) Ruggieri degli Ubaldini (1278–1295) Teodorico Ranieri (1295–1299) archbishop-elect Giovanni di Polo (1299–1312)...

routes between Italy and North Africa. In 1215 the Pisan Lamberto Visconti, giudice of Gallura, obtained by force from the Torchitorio IV of Cagliari and his...

marquesses remained substantially autonomous, thanks to the support of the Visconti and later the Sforza of Milan. During the Ambrosian Republic, Genoa attacked...