page_title: Bartolomeo Colleoni
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Bartolomeo Colleoni / Biography / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Bartolomeo Colleoni Monument (Lotnikow Square), Szczecin, Poland Polski: Pomnik Bartolomeo Colleoni'ego (Plac Lotników), Szczecin, Polska Deutsch: Bartolomeo Colleoni-Denkmal (Lotnikow-Platz), Stettin, Polen Italiano: Bartolomeo Colleoni-Statua (Piazza Lotnikow), Stettino, Polonia
context_page_description: Bartolomeo Colleoni was an Italian condottiero, who became captain-general of the Republic of Venice. Colleoni "gained reputation as the foremost tactician and disciplinarian of the 15th century". He is also credited with having refurbished the Roman baths at Trescore Balneario.
context_section_description: Colleoni was born in Solza, in the countryside of Bergamo (then part of the Duchy of Milan), where he prepared his magnificent mortuary chapel, the Cappella Colleoni, in a shrine that he seized after it was refused him by the local confraternity, the Consiglio della Misericordia. His family was a noble one, exiled with the rest of the Guelphs by the Visconti of Milan. Bartolomeo's father Paolo seized the castle of Trezzo by guile and held it by force, until he was assassinated by his cousins, probably acting on the orders of Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan.
caption: Bartolomeo Colleoni Monument at Lotników Square, Szczecin, Poland
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