From Ludovico the Moro to the Spanish

The descent in Italy of Charles VIII's army gave the start to one sad period for Italy owing to the continuous struggles between France and Spain, struggles that developed them, with relative destructions, lootings, ruins and pestilences, on the Italian ground.
After alternate stories, France was beaten.
It had so geginning the long and sad period of the Spanish domination.
In any case Ludovico the Moro continued and widened to its Court the magnificence established by Francis Sforza, so much to compete with that of Medici of Florence. Is not exaggerated to affirm that Milan was with him it to a degree of such prosperity that any other European city could boast of.

So much welfare allowed the flow, in Milan, of famous artists: architects, painters and sculptors that bejeweled the city of stupendous works.
It was that the time when in Milan Leonardo painted "The Last Supper", while the top architect Bramante, raised the gallery of the Church of Saint Maria of the Graces.
We remember, of this period, the bright figure of St. Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan.
In 1630, Milan was desolate by a terrible pestilence, pestilence narrated by Alexander Manzoni in his "The Betrothed".

San Carlo at Lazzaretto (1489)

That remain of Lazzaretto (1489)

Being the city spread beyond out of the Shipping walls, the Spaniards made to build the widest surrounded of the Bastions, with six new Doors.

Ruines of the Spanish Walls

Milan in the '700 with the spanish walls