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Desio, Battle of

Years: 1277 - 1277

The Battle of Desio 8s fought on January 21, 1277 between the Della Torre and Visconti families for the control of Milan and its countryside.

The battlefield is located near the modern Desio, a commune outside the city in Lombardy, northern Italy.Although generally considered one of the numerous minor battles fought in the thirteenth century in Italy during the Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, it is in fact the conclusion of a long inner struggle for the possession of Milan, leading to the transformation of the former democratic regime into an aristocratic signoria.

The Visconti victory grants them the rule over Milan, which will last until the fifteenth century.

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward...This is not a philosophical or political argument—any oculist will tell you this is true. The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life's work to the preservation..."

― Winston S. Churchill, Speech (March 2, 1944)