Giorgio Lampugnano was a university professor of

Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the cap ...

, husband of one Giovannina Omodei and father of the

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. Lampugnano was the figurehead of the original four founders of the Ambrosian Republic, an inspiring public speaker. Lampugnano and his father-in-law Giovanni Omodei were among the first Captains and Defenders. He was an active

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and stirred the populace to protest against peace talks with

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in 1448 after the

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ic triumph in the election. When Carlo Gonzaga gained too much power for his firm republican tastes, he organized the Ghibellines into a pro-

Francesco Sforza Francesco I Sforza (; 23 July 1401 – 8 March 1466) was an Italian condottiero who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death. In the 1420s, he participated in the War of L'A ...

conspiracy against him, but they were betrayed. On the way to the

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as an embassy, Lampugnano and his friend and fellow conspirator

Teodoro Bossi The name ''Teodoro'' is the Italian, Portuguese and Spanish form of Theodore. People Given name * Teodoro Alcalde (1913–1995) * Teodoro Ardemans (died 1726) * Teodoro Borlongan (1955–2005) * Teodoro Buontempo (1946–2013) * Teodoro Cano Garc ...

were captured and imprisoned. Lampugnano was beheaded without a trial, and Bossi was tortured until he gave the names of his accomplices, all of whom either escaped or were murdered. His relative, Oldrado Lampugnano, was elected to the Captains and Defenders in the Ghibelline triumph and later became a member of

's Secret Council. ''Storia di Milano.

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References

*''A History of Milan under the Sforza.'' Cecilia M. Ady, Edward Armstrong (historian), Edward Armstrong; Methuen & Co., 1907

Notes

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