not only George

From Boston Globe
By John Powers
"...Julius Caesar founded the city of Como (as Novum Comum) in 59 B.C., and in the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder had a spread in Bellagio, on what the locals call Lago di Como.Virgil called this "the greatest lake," and Franz Liszt honeymooned here. Benito Mussolini, fleeing to Switzerland, was caught and shot here. Henry James marveled at "the swarming shimmering prodigality of the landscape."