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LODI , a See also:

town and episcopal see of See also:Piedmont, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Milan, 202 m. by See also:rail S.E. of that See also:city, on a See also:hill above the right See also:bank of the See also:Adda, 230 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop. (1901) 19,970 (town), 26,827 (See also:commune). The site of the city is an See also:eminence rising very gradually from the Lombard See also:plain, and the surrounding See also:country is one of the richest See also:dairy districts in Italy. The See also:cathedral (1158), with a See also:Gothic See also:facade and a 16th-See also:century lateral See also:tower, has a restored interior. The See also:church of the Incoronata was erected by Battaggio (1488) in the Bramantesque See also:style. It is an elegant octagonal domed structure, and is decorated with frescoes by the Piazza See also:family, natives of the town, and four large See also:altar-pieces by Calisto Piazza (died after 1561). There is a See also:fine See also:organ of 1507. The 13th-century Gothic church of See also:San See also:Francesco, restored in 1889, with 14th-century paintings, is also noticeable. The Palazzo Modegnani has a fine gateway in the style of See also:Bramante, and the See also:hospital a cloistered quadrangle. In the Via Pompeia is an See also:early See also:Renaissance See also:house with fine decorations in See also:marble and terra-See also:cotta. Besides an extensive See also:trade in See also:cheese (Lodi producing more Parmesan than See also:Parma itself) and other dairy produce, there are manufactures of See also:linen, See also:silk, See also:majolica and chemicals.

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ancient Laus Pompeia See also:lay 31 m. W. of the See also:present city, and the site is still occupied by a considerable See also:village, Lodi Vecchio, with the old cathedral of S. Bassiano, now a See also:brick See also:building, which contains 15th-century frescoes. It was the point where the roads from See also:Mediolanum to Placentia and See also:Cremona diverged, and there was also a road to See also:Ticinum turning off from the former, but it is hardly mentioned by classical writers. It appears to have been a See also:municipium. No ruins exist above ground, but various antiquities have been found here. From which Pompeius, whether Cn. Pompeius See also:Strabo, who gave citizenship to the Transpadani, or his son, the more famous See also:Pompey, it took its name is not certain. In the See also:middle ages Lodi was second to Milan among the cities of See also:northern Italy. A dispute with the See also:archbishop of Milan about the See also:investiture of the See also:bishop of Lodi (1024) proved the beginning of a protracted See also:feud between the two cities. In 1111 the Milanese laid the whole See also:place in ruins and forbade their rivals to restore what they had destroyed, and in 1158, when in spite of this See also:prohibition a fairly flourishing See also:settlement had again been formed, they repeated their See also:work in a more thorough manner. A number of the Lodigians had settled on Colle Eghezzone; and their village, the Borgo d'Isella, on the site of a See also:temple of See also:Hercules, soon See also:grew up under the patronage of See also:Frederick See also:Barbarossa into a new city of Lodi (1162).

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emperor, Lodi was before See also:long compelled to enter the Lombard See also:League, and in 1198 it formed See also:alliance offensive and defensive with Milan. The strife between the Sommariva or aristocratic party and the Overgnaghi or democratic party was so severe that the city divided into two distinct communes. The Overgnaghi, expelled in 1236, were restored by Frederick II. who took the city after three months' See also:siege. Lodi was actively concerned in the See also:rest of therGuelph and Ghibelline struggle. In 1416 its ruler, Giovanni Vignati, was treacherously taken prisoner by Filippo Maria See also:Visconti, and after that See also:time it became dependent on Milan. The See also:duke of See also:Brunswick captured it in 1625, in the interests of See also:Spain; and it was occupied by the See also:French (1701), by the Austrians (1706), by the See also:king of See also:Sardinia (1733), by the Austrians (1736), by the Spaniards (1745), and again by the Austrians (1746). On the loth of May 1796 was fought the See also:battle of Lodi between the Austrians and See also:Napoleon, which made the latter See also:master of See also:Lombardy.

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