Verona

Cangrande's nephew Mastino II overreached. When he pushed his power beyond the Po, Florence, Venice, the Visconti, the Este and the Gonzaga joined against him, and after three years of war the Scaligeri were left with little more than Verona and Vicenza. The family then destroyed itself. Cangrande II was killed by his brother Cansignorio, who nonetheless gave the city palaces, aqueducts and bridges; when Antonio della Scala in turn murdered a brother of his own, the people deserted him, and with Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan marching on the city he fled Verona at midnight on 19 October 1387.

Milanese and then Carrara rule did not last. In 1405 Venice entered Verona with the help of its citizens, and apart from the years 1508 to 1517, when Emperor Maximilian I held it during the War of the League of Cambrai, the city remained Venetian for almost four centuries. The heaviest blow of those centuries came from plague rather than war: in 1630–31 about 33,000 people died, more than three in five of the inhabitants.