Napoleone della Torre

Napoleone, called Napo, della Torre (c. 1201–16 August 1278) was the leading noble of the Guelph della Torre house and de facto lord of Milan from 1265. He succeeded his cousin Filippo as Anziano del Popolo of Milan.

In 1267 he commanded the Guelph league against Conradin. He later refused to support Charles of Anjou's expansion and in 1273 joined the imperial party to counter him, becoming imperial vicar in Lombardy in 1274.

On 21 January 1277 Archbishop Ottone Visconti defeated and captured him at Desio, ending della Torre rule in Milan. He died after nineteen months in a cage at Castel Baradello in Como.