Brescia

Brescia was a Lombard city and commune in northern Italy. In the fourteenth century, Verona’s della Scala lords and Milan’s Visconti contested its rule.

Pandolfo Malatesta took Brescia in 1406, and Venice acquired it in 1426. French troops sacked the city in 1512, killing thousands of civilians; it returned to Venice in 1520. After Napoleon ended Venetian rule in 1797, Brescia passed to the Austrian Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia in 1815.