Pietro Dal Verme

Pietro Dal Verme (c. 1300–1357) was a Veronese condottiero and diplomat, the founder of his family's fortunes, who rose with the Scaligers. A trusted officer of Cangrande della Scala, he was knighted after the taking of Padua in 1328.

From 1329 to 1337 he governed newly won Treviso as podestà, a hard post of strained relations with Venice. In 1337 the Venetian–Florentine league overran the Scaliger strongholds one by one; he held Monselice, the last of them, for a year, and his garrison killed the league's commander. In August 1338 he surrendered the starving town, riding out armed under Scaliger banners with his men and townspeople unharmed.

Captured when Lucca fell to Pisa in 1342, he backed Fregnano della Scala's failed coup in 1354 and was exiled with his sons. He died at Brescia in 1357, and the break left his house free to build its own power.