Villa Arvedi was built in 1200 and is registered as being the property of the Dalla Scala family. In 1400 Jacopo Dal Verme became the Villa’s owner when he
exchanged the castle and village of Viganò, with Gian Galeazzo Visconti.
Subsequently, in 1442, the Veneto Republic seized the Villa and put it up for sale together with the other remaining properties of Jacopo’s rebellious
nephew, Alvise Dal Verme.
The Villa, listed as being a “palatio merlato” (battlemented building) situated “in Cuzzano, in pertinentia Grezane Vallis Pantene” (In Cuzzano near
Grezzana, Valpantena) passed from the hands of the Dal Verme family to the Allegri family.
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The Allegri were a very important and powerful family at the time.
Simon Allegri, the son of Allegro, and a descendent of the Honoris, was accepted as part of the Noble Council of Verona in the same year that La Serenissima
(Venice) conquered the Veronese land.
Over the course of the years the Allegri dynasty’s political and financial power diminished and in 1824 Lucrezia, the last descendent of the Veronese
family, sold the villa for 362,068.97 Austrian liras to Giovanni Antonio Arvedi from Trento.
From that day the Arvedi family has been the owner of this splendid villa in Cuzzano.
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