Galeazzo Visconti (envoy) explained

Galeazzo Visconti known as Messer Vesconte (1455 – 1531), was Count of Busto Arsizio, military captain and trusted courtier of Ludovico il Moro, cavalier servant of his wife Beatrice d'Este.[1] An envoy represented Ludovico Sforza, the deposed Duke of Milan, at the negotiations for the Treaty of Basel (1499).[2]

Notes and References

  1. Antonio Perria, I terribili Sforza, Longanesi et C., 1973, p. 229.
  2. Book: Oechsli . Wilhelm . Paul . Eden . Eden Paul . Paul . Cedar . Cedar Paul . History of Switzerland, 1499–1914 . November 6, 2010 . 1922 . . 1922 . . . 2884964 . 26 . III, Mercenary Campaigns in Italy . https://books.google.com/books?id=oS1pAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA23 . The one hope of the overthrown duke was that he might succeed in supplanting the Swiss with the king of France. His agent, Galeazzo Visconti, did actually succeed in winning to his side the Grisons men and also the Valaisans, whose bishop, Matthew Schinner, was an enemy of France on principle..

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