ALBOINO, king of the LONGOBARDS. — Elected in 565, he defeated the Gepids and killed their king Cunimond, whose daughter Rosmunda he married. In 568 he began the conquest of Italy, at the head not only of his own people but also of numerous Saxons and, apparently, of Gepids, Sarmatians, Pannonians, Suebi, and Norici. In 569 he occupied Milan; in 572 he captured Pavia after a three-year siege (569–72) and immediately elected it the capital of the new kingdom. Meanwhile, his men advanced as far as the southern border of Tuscia. He died at Verona on 28 June 572, the victim of a conspiracy led by his wife Rosmunda.
BIBL.: Paolo Diacono, Historia Langobardorum, I, 27 and nearly all of I, II, in MGH, Script. Rev. Lang. et Ital. saec. VI-IX, Hannover 1878; G. Romano-A. Solmi, Le dominazioni barbariche in Italia (395-888), Milan 1940, pp. 267–72. Emma Santovito
ALBORGHETTI, LUIGI. — Papal diplomat, born in Rome in 1773, died in 1835. Of a noble Bergamasque family and a friend of Vincenzo Monti, he was appointed secretary of the nunciature in Malta at a very young age, then went to Milan and Paris as an agent of the Braschi family. Remaining in the background during the revolutionary period, he was entrusted by Pius VII with the office of consul general in Milan and Venice.
BIBL.: G. Gallavresi, s. V. in Diz. del Risorg. Naz., II, Milan 1930, p. 39.
Paolo Dalla Torre