Il Castello di Milano
Period of the Viscontis
| 1368 |
Foundation of the Viscontis’ castle, called the Castle of Porta Giovia (horn the name of the nearest gate of the town) by order of Galeazzo II Visconti, who, after having poisoned, so it is rumoured, his brother Matteo II, Signore of Milan, had divided the Signoria with his other brother Bernabò, his accomplice. |
| 1378 | Death of Galeazzo II - His son Gian Galeazzo succeeds him and shares the Duchy with his uncle Bernabò though making Pavia his residence. |
| 1385 | Gian Galeazzo, who had for years pretended to be quite
inept so as to deceive his uncle and fatherin-law feigns to go on
a pilgrimage to Varese with a great retinue of soldiers, and invites
Bernabò to meet him. Having found him outside the Pusterla
of Sant’Arnbrogio where the other had gone to wait for him Galeazzo has him and his son treacherously arrested by Jacopo dal Verme and Ottone Bandello. Bernabò is kept a prisoner for a while in the Castle of Porta Giovia, and is then taken to the Castle of Trezzo where a few months later he dies, it is said by poison. |