It appears that in the long ago, the Cardinal Schalchi-visconti was the benefactor of this town, and there on the hillside, tree embowered, was his villa with its little port for the lake boats.
"Hospital Sketches"
Robert Swain Peabody
I have read of the awful doings of the Lord Bernabo visconti at Milan in the olden time, but I believe that compared with this monster of Cesena that same Bernabo was no worse than a sucking dove.
"The Shame of Motley"
Raphael Sabatini
He appointed a noble, Serbelloni, to be the first President of the Cisalpine Republic, and a scion of the august House of the visconti was sent as its ambassador to Paris.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose