Complex sentence: Gian Giacomo, the eldest of fourteen children, banished from Milan after a daring murder of revenge in broad daylight, fled to Lake Como where he gathered about him a band of brigands answerable to none but him.
Split into simpler sentences: Gian Giacomo, the eldest of fourteen children, was banished from Milan after a daring murder of revenge in broad daylight. He fled to Lake Como where he gathered about him a band of brigands answerable to none but him.