The city of Fondi (LT).
Founded , according to legend, thanks to the hero Hercules was trading port
for the Greeks , then underwent the influence of Etruscans in the fifth
century, and later that of the Volsci .
He obtained the Roman citizenship "sine suffrage " in 338 , and then the
flood in 188 BC .
Reduced several times in misery because of the barbarian invasions before,
and assaults Saracens then , funds reached stability and its peak under the
rule Caetani ( 1299-1504 ) .
In 1387 it was the scene of the Schism of the West with the election , in
the Cathedral of St. Peter of the Funds, the antipope Clement VII opposed to
the legitimate Pope Urban VI.
At the end of the century the court was assgnata by the French king Charles
VIII to Prospero Colonna, whose son Vespasian , then married the young
Giulia Gonzaga , a girl of extraordinary beauty and cleverness who donate
funds to a period of splendor and cultural re-
the early death of her
husband.
The fame of her beauty and culture had to rush to funds not only artists and
famous people , but also the infamous pirate Kair - Ed- Din, called
Barbarossa, who in 1534 attacked the city to kidnap the beautiful Giulia
Gonzaga and give it to the Sultan Suleiman II.
Was warned in time managed to escape the pirate who vented his anger by
sacking of funds and on fire .
Only in 1806 , with the abolition of fedualità , the Funds entered into the
new municipal law and through the Renaissance gave way to progress that
makes it one of the most flourishing centers of the province of Latina.