In this year the inhabitants of Milan revolted against Frederick
Barbarossa. The angry emperor immediately laid siege to that city. The
cruel conqueror drove out all the inhabitants, razed the most beautiful
of the edifices with the ground, demolished the gates, its triumphal
arches, its baths, its most magnificent houses, and sowed salt upon its
ruins, to denote that it should never be rebuilt. His cruel design was
disappointed; Milan soon arose again from her ashes.