Guido della Torre

Guido della Torre (27 September 1259 – summer 1312) was the Guelph lord of Milan from 1302 to 1312. After his father was killed in the Visconti victory at Desio in 1277, he was captured with his uncle Napoleone and spent seven years imprisoned in the Baradello castle near Como before escaping in 1284.

In 1302 a Guelph coalition drove the Visconti from Milan, ending twenty-five years of exile, and in 1307 he became capitano del popolo and then perpetual captain in 1308. After a failed rising against Emperor Henry VII in 1311, he fled to Cremona, where he died.