[5] The latter office constituted Ludovico il Moro's sign of gratitude for the Historia Patria, the first chronicle of the city of Milan written in the Italian.

Corio's Historia traces the history of Milan from its origins until 1499, when Ludovico il Moro was forced out by the French.

[4] At odds with the conventions of the erudite tradition, Corio's History is written in a vivid Italian style, instead of scholarly Latin.

According to John Addington Symonds: Corio's voluminous narrative is a mine of accurate information, illustrated with vivid pictures of manners and carefully considered portraits of eminent men.

Reading it, we cannot but regret that Poggio and Bruno, Navagero and Bembo, judged it necessary to tell the tales of Florence and of Venice in a pseudo-Livian Latin.