Capital

This coat of arms is engraved on a capital that forms part of the porticoes at a house on Corso Umberto. It shows the black and gold stripes of the first coat of arms of the Gonzaga family, quartered with the distinctive large snake of the Visconti. The capital therefore dates as far back as the last decades of the 14th century, at a time when there was still an alliance between Francesco I Gonzaga and Gian Galeazzo Visconti. In fact, Francesco's wife was Agnese Visconti, who was accused of infidelity and beheaded on 7 February 1391.