Cremona

Cremona was a Lombard city on the Po, ruled by the Visconti of Milan from 1322, although their control was interrupted.

In 1406 Cabrino Fondulo seized Cremona after killing the men of the Cavalcabò family; he later ceded it to Filippo Maria Visconti. The city became part of the Duchy of Milan, but Venice held it from 1499 to 1509. Under Spanish rule it suffered a plague in 1630; it passed with Milan to Austria in 1707.