Bergamo

Bergamo was a Lombard city at the foot of the Alps, where the Guelph Colleoni and Ghibelline Suardi families contested power. It had been an independent commune since the eleventh century.

The Malatesta took control in 1407, but after the 1427 battle of Maclodio, Milan ceded Bergamo to Venice in 1428. The 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio placed it in the Cisalpine Republic; the 1815 Congress of Vienna assigned it to Austrian Lombardy–Venetia.