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Bergamo, Bergamum, a City of Italy, in the State of Venice, with a Bishoprick Suffragant of Milan. It is the Capital of the small Country of Bergamasque in Gaul, beyond the Po, called since Lombardy. This Country hath the Boroughs of Malpango, Sonero, Bergamo, &c. it is very strong by its Castle-walls and advantageous Situation upon a Mountain, which overlooks the Plains..."

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=== 1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri. ===
<blockquote>Bergamo, Bergamum, a City of Italy, in the State of Venice, with a Bishoprick Suffragant of Milan. It is the Capital of the small Country of Bergamasque in Gaul, beyond the Po, called since Lombardy. This Country hath the Boroughs of Malpango, Sonero, Bergamo, &c. it is very strong by its Castle-walls and advantageous Situation upon a Mountain, which overlooks the Plains of Milan for 20 or 30 Miles, which gives a very fine Prospect. It's but one days Journey from Milan, and situated betwixt Bresse, Creme, Lodi, and Como, and the Rivers Brembo and Serio. Bergamo was built by the Gauls, called Cenomanois or Manceaux, who passed into Italy about 170 of Rome, and the XLIX Olympiade. Paul the Deacon numbers it amongst those which were ruined by Attila. The Lombards repair'd it, and were Masters of it until the Eighth Age: Then it fell under the Empire of Charlemagne and his Successors; but afterwards remained a free City until 264: Or, according to others, 1301, that Philip Turriam made himself Master of it. After Turriani, it was subject to Visconti, Suardi, Coglioni, Mastin of Escale, and John Pincinnino; the latter was assassinated about 1409; and Roger Suardi, whom the Inhabitants established as Governor, sold Bergamo to Pandolf Malat•sta; some time after, it was subdued by Philip Duke of Milan, about 1419; and this Duke dying, August 13, 1447, those of Bergamo submitted themselves to the Venetians; but in 1509, the latter being defeated by King Lewis the Twelfth, at the famous Battel of Aignadel May 14; this great Monarch took Bergamo: It returned again about the year 1516 to the Venetians, who have still kept it. It is a pleasant City, and pretty well built. The Language of the Bergamois is the most unpolite of all Italy, and therefore affected by the Mountibanks of this Country. Plin. Paul, Deacon. Merula Guichardin.</blockquote>

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