Missaglia family
From the 14th century they practised as makers of fine armours and weapons in Milan. With Tommaso and, on his retirement in c. 1451, with his son Antonio (d. c. 1495) the family acquired a European reputation for producing what were, in terms of beauty as well as of practicality, the finest armours in existence. Having become wealthy in goods and enfeoffed land the family withdrew from trade on Antonio's death. Their place was taken by a family only slightly less famous, the Negroli, who maintained Milan's reputation as a fine armaments centre to the late 16th century.
