It flows by Lodi and Pizzighettone, and receives the waters of the Brembo, descending from the Val Brembana, and the Serio from the Val Seriana above Bergamo.
Parmesan cheese, otherwise called Lodigiano (from Lodi) or grana, was presented to King Louis XII.
Como and Lodi complained of the violence used to them by the former city.
It is a junction for Verona, Cremona and Bergamo, and steam tramways run to Monza, Lodi, &c.
The success at the bridge of Lodi (loth of May) seems first to have inspired in the young general dreams of a grander career than that of a successful general of the Revolution; while his narrow escape at the bridge of Arcola in November strengthened his conviction that he was destined for a great future.
