Galeazzo II Visconti

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Galeazzo II (d. 1378) was a member of the Visconti dynasty, rulers of Milan, Italy; he held his court at Pavia.

He was handsome and distinguished, the patron of Petrarch, the founder of the University of Pavia and a gifted diplomat. He married his daughter Violante to Lionel of Antwerp, son of Edward III of England, giving a dowry of 200,000 gold florins; and his son Gian Galeazzo to Isabelle, daughter of King John of France.

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