ALBONO, king of the Lombards. — Elected in 565, he defeated the Gepids and killed their king Cunimondus, whose daughter Rosamund he married. In 568 he began the conquest of Italy, leading not only his own people but also numerous Saxons, and, it seems, Gepids, Sarmatians, Pannonians, Suebi, and Noricans. In 569 he occupied Milan; in 572 he took Pavia after a three-year siege (569–72) and from that time made it the capital of his new kingdom. Meanwhile his men advanced as far as the southern border of Tuscany. He died in Verona on 28 June 572, a victim of a conspiracy led by his wife Rosamund.
ALBORGHETTI, Luigi. — Papal diplomat, b. in Rome in 1773, d. in 1835. Of a noble Bergamasque family, he was a close friend of Vincenzo Monti and, while still very young, served as secretary to the nunciature in Malta, later becoming the agent of the Braschi household in Milan and Paris. He remained in the background during the revolutionary period, but Pius VII entrusted him with the post of consul general in Milan and Venice.