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Zibello,
site of pre-historic and Roman settlements, passed into
the hands of the Pallavicino family in the XIV century, maintaining
its control until the Napoleonic era, albeit in the form of
a vassalage relationship with regards to the Viscounts and the
Sforza of Milan (XIV and XV centuries) and later to the Farnese
and Borbon families (from the XVI to theXVIII centuries). Palazzo
Pallavicino, located on the main square of the village, is of
a square layout with a central court and a porticoed main front
with polygonal pillars and shield-capitals. The oldest section
is set apart by its wide arches and the exuberance of the decorations
in terracotta and lime, typical of adorned gothic. The fictile
tiles which decorate it date this part of the palace to the
first decades of the rule of Giovan Francesco Pallavicino (1460
/ 70).The other part of the building, which once housed the
public oven, the inn and the seat of the toll house, betrays
the influence of Renaissance are, and might therefore have been
constructed at the start of the sixteenth century, at the times
of Clarice Malaspina, widow of Federico Pallavicino.The decoration
in terracotta of the sixteenth century part of the palace, along
with that of other architecture which emerged in the village,
is the work of the Cremonese brick works of De Stavoli, active
in Zibello from 1470. In 1804, with the decisive intervention
of the Marquis Antonio Pallavicino, a performance hall was opened
in the Palace, destined for public use. The building remained
the property of the Pallavicino and Rangoni families until the
suppression of the feuds during the Napoleonic era; it was acquired
by the council administration in 1905.
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