Gorgonzola, Milan Gorgonzola, Milan Gorgonzola ( ) is an Italian town of c. 20,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy. It is part of the territory of the Martesana, north-east of Milan. The town gives its name to the famous cheese gorgonzola. The first written records mentioning the village of Gorgonzola back to the tenth century: it seems that the notary clerk of the convent of Saint Ambrose in Milan was the caretaker of the church of Saints Gervasio and Protasio in "Gorgontiola". In 453 the church, located in the current suburb of Gorgonzola, was attacked by the Huns who
Red-veined darter Red-veined darter The red-veined darter or nomad ("Sympetrum fonscolombii") is a dragonfly of the genus "Sympetrum". There is genetic and behavioural evidence that "S. fonscolombii" is not closely related to the other members of the genus "Sympetrum" and it will at some time in the future be removed from this genus. "Sympetrum fonscolombii" was named under the protonym " Libellula fonscolombii " by the Belgian entomologist Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, in 1840, in honor of the French entomologist Étienne of Fonscolombe (hence the species name). Its name is sometimes spelt "fonscolombei" instead of "fonscolombii" but Askew (2004) gives the latter