Republic of Bergamo [SEP] inception
Republic of Bergamo
The Republic of Bergamo (Italian: "Repubblica Bergamasca") was an ephemeral revolutionary client republic, created on 13 March 1797 by the French army to rule the local administration of Bergamo and its province, during the dissolution of the Republic of Venice. With the Preliminary of Leoben, France and Austria agreed the end of the multi-centennial Venetian rule over the territory between Adda River and Oglio River, together with the Austrian occupation of Istria and Dalmatia.
Defined as ""mother-municipality"
Sep 1576 – 19 Jul 1577 Appointed, Bishop of Bergamo)
- Pomponio Cotta (19 Jul 1577 – 11 Sep 1579 Died)
- Francesco Bossi (21 Oct 1579 – 18 Sep 1583 Died)
- Gaspare Visconti (5 Nov 1584 – 28 Nov 1584 Appointed, Archbishop of Milan)
- Cesare Speciano (Speciani) (28 Nov 1584 – 30 Jan 1591 Appointed, Bishop of Cremona)
- Pietro Martire Ponzone (8 Feb 1591 – 19 Nov 1592 Died)
- Carlo Bescapè, B.