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Lomello came into the possession of Gian Galeazzo Visconti who, in 1381, commissioned the engineer Giacomolo Albranelli to fortify the village with his fortress. This should be understood as the castle called “new” by the inhabitants, in which Gian Galeazzo himself met the Dukes of Burgundy and Touraine. Lomello was sacked by Facino Cane and the castle suffered serious damage, although it was not completely destroyed. In 1449 Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, gave Lomello with Dorno as a fief to Antonio Crivelli with the right to surround the village with walls and a moat. The Count therefore began the work of rebuilding the Castle, surrounding it with a moat and raising a tower to guard the drawbridge. His successors continued his work and it is known that, in 1549, Count Alessandro Crivelli, cardinal, nephew of Antonio, paid 170 imperial lire for marble and columns transported from Stradella to Lomello for the Castle; in fact the document says: "in opere arcis" (in the works of the fortress). They are most likely the columns of the current loggia of the internal courtyard of the castle. When the Crivellis died out, the property passed to the Corinis. In 1923 the lawyer Angelo Corini, who was remembered in the brief historical excursus, left the Castle as a legacy to the Gerontocomio, which he himself founded, upon his death. In 1948 it became the seat of the Municipality and still is. At the end of 1979 the manor was in a precarious state: the roof had a large leak; the walls bore unmistakable signs of their antiquity. A radical restoration work was necessary. The roof was redone, respecting the previous structure in all respects; and in the years 1981-1982, the restoration work continued, consolidating the external perimeter walls and the facades facing the internal courtyard. Inside, on the mezzanine floor, there are two rooms decorated with notable frescoes; in the first a profane cycle. In the vault there is an image of a woman holding a celestial sphere and a compass in her hands. Her figure is inserted in an octagon on whose sides appear the names of the winds, according to the traditional rose, represented by the heads of putti in the act of blowing. The seasons are then depicted with the relative signs of the zodiac. In the lateral lunettes: the work in the fields in the different seasons. The frescoes are by an anonymous artist from 1500 and follow the style of Flemish painters. The landscape is not that of Lomello, but hilly or mountainous. The costumes of the characters are Nordic. In the second room, smaller than the previous one, a religious cycle is depicted, with the story and martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Egypt, in the lateral lunettes, and Paradise, according to Dante, with the heavens, the blessed, the Trinity, in the vault. This room was, perhaps, a private chapel, it is thought, of Cardinal Crivelli. All the frescoes can be traced back to the restoration work, commissioned by the Cardinal. The Roman mosaic is preserved in the current room of the Library. It is thus possible to reconstruct the topography of Lomello in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The land was surrounded, in part, by moats and walls, with gates, above one of which, near the Castle, a small tower rose, called a torrino or dovecote. This tower had been built, it seems, by the Community for the purpose of placing a clock there; but this did not happen, indeed the tower was the cause of contention between the Count and the Community. The Crivellis, in fact, did not look favorably on that building, which, in the event of a conflict, could become very annoying. A large ditch ran to the west of the fortress, part of which filled the Castle's fishpond, and the other irrigated the Municipality's fields, called by the people "terrapieni".
Lomello came into the possession of Gian Galeazzo Visconti who, in 1381, commissioned the engineer Giacomolo Albranelli to fortify the village with his fortress. This should be understood as the castle called “new” by the inhabitants, in which Gian Galeazzo himself met the Dukes of Burgundy and Touraine. Lomello was sacked by Facino Cane and the castle suffered serious damage, although it was not completely destroyed. In 1449 Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, gave Lomello with Dorno as a fief to Antonio Crivelli with the right to surround the village with walls and a moat. The Count therefore began the work of rebuilding the Castle, surrounding it with a moat and raising a tower to guard the drawbridge. His successors continued his work and it is known that, in 1549, Count Alessandro Crivelli, cardinal, nephew of Antonio, paid 170 imperial lire for marble and columns transported from Stradella to Lomello for the Castle; in fact the document says: "in opere arcis" (in the works of the fortress). They are most likely the columns of the current loggia of the internal courtyard of the castle. When the Crivellis died out, the property passed to the Corinis. In 1923 the lawyer Angelo Corini, who was remembered in the brief historical excursus, left the Castle as a legacy to the Gerontocomio, which he himself founded, upon his death. In 1948 it became the seat of the Municipality and still is. At the end of 1979 the manor was in a precarious state: the roof had a large leak; the walls bore unmistakable signs of their antiquity. A radical restoration work was necessary. The roof was redone, respecting the previous structure in all respects; and in the years 1981-1982, the restoration work continued, consolidating the external perimeter walls and the facades facing the internal courtyard. Inside, on the mezzanine floor, there are two rooms decorated with notable frescoes; in the first a profane cycle. In the vault there is an image of a woman holding a celestial sphere and a compass in her hands. Her figure is inserted in an octagon on whose sides appear the names of the winds, according to the traditional rose, represented by the heads of putti in the act of blowing. The seasons are then depicted with the relative signs of the zodiac. In the lateral lunettes: the work in the fields in the different seasons. The frescoes are by an anonymous artist from 1500 and follow the style of Flemish painters. The landscape is not that of Lomello, but hilly or mountainous. The costumes of the characters are Nordic. In the second room, smaller than the previous one, a religious cycle is depicted, with the story and martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Egypt, in the lateral lunettes, and Paradise, according to Dante, with the heavens, the blessed, the Trinity, in the vault. This room was, perhaps, a private chapel, it is thought, of Cardinal Crivelli. All the frescoes can be traced back to the restoration work, commissioned by the Cardinal. The Roman mosaic is preserved in the current room of the Library. It is thus possible to reconstruct the topography of Lomello in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The land was surrounded, in part, by moats and walls, with gates, above one of which, near the Castle, a small tower rose, called a torrino or dovecote. This tower had been built, it seems, by the Community for the purpose of placing a clock there; but this did not happen, indeed the tower was the cause of contention between the Count and the Community. The Crivellis, in fact, did not look favorably on that building, which, in the event of a conflict, could become very annoying. A large ditch ran to the west of the fortress, part of which filled the Castle's fishpond, and the other irrigated the Municipality's fields, called by the people "terrapieni".
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