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of the time. Croce also designed
the characteristic late Baroque
curved façade. Reconstructed
after World War II, the palazzo
became the home of the
Municipal (or Sormani Andreani)
Library, the largest in Milan.
It has over 580,000 works,
including Stendhal’s private
library, a newspaper library
with about 19,500 Italian and
foreign publications, and a
record and CD collection.
A cata logue of all the Milan
libraries is also here, as is the
regional periodicals catalogue.
The Neo-Classical back
opens onto a garden, part
of the larger original one,
which is used for small
exhibitions. Nearby, at No. 2
Via Visconti di Modrone, is
one of Milan’s excellent tradi-
tional pastic cerie, the Taveggia
pastry shop (see p185).

9 Palazzo di
Giustizia
Corso di Porta Vittoria. Map 8 E1.
v 12, 23, 27. @ 60, 73, 77, 84.
The centre of attention in Detail from the fresco The Legend of the Virgin, San Pietro in Gessate
the early 1990s because of
the Mani Pulite (clean hands) 0 San Pietro church was damaged during
corruption inquests and trials in Gessate World War II, in particular the
that changed much of the right-hand chapels, where
face of Italian politics, the Milan Piazza San Pietro in Gessate. Map 8 E1. there are traces of frescoes by
Law Courts were designed in Tel 02-54 10 74 24. v 12, 23, 27. Antonio Campi, Moncalvo and
typical Fascist style (1932–40) @ 60, 73, 77, 84. Open Jul–mid-Sep: Bergognone (whose Funeral of
by Marcello Piacentini. The 8am–noon Mon–Fri, 8:30am–noon, St Martin is in the fifth chapel).
building also houses the 5–8pm Sat & Sun; mid-Sep–Jun: The third and fifth chapels on
7:30am–6pm Mon–Fri, 7:30am–noon,
Notarial Acts Archive, formerly 2:30–6pm Sat & Sun. 5 1:15pm Mon the left have fine frescoes by
in the Palazzo della Ragione & Fri, 8am Tue & Thu, 8:30am Wed, Montorfano: Life of St John
(see p56). The Palazzo has 1,200 7pm Sat, 9am, noon, 7pm Sun. the Baptist (1484) and The Legend
rooms and 65 law courts with of St Anthony Abbot. The eight
works by contemporary artists, This church was built in 1447– choir stalls were rebuilt with
including Mario Sironi’s fresco 75 by the Solari school and the remains of the 1640 ones
in the Assize Court. financed by the banker Pigello by Carlo Garavaglia, damaged
Portinari, whose in 1943 and partly used as
emblem is on the firewood during the war. The
outer wall of the left-hand transept has frescoes
apse. In the middle of of the Life of Sant’Ambrogio
the façade, rebuilt in (1490) commis sioned by the
1912, is a portal with Sforza senator Ambrogio Grifi
an effigy of St Peter, from Bernar dino Butinone
which was added in and Bernardino Zenale. In the
the 1600s. The Gothic lunettes under the vault, next
interior has a three- to Sant’Ambrogio on Horse back,
aisle nave with you can see the figure of a
ribbed vaulting and hanged man whose rope “drops”
pointed arches and into the scene below, down to
The Palazzo di Giustizia (1932–40), a typical example of has pre served some the hangman. These frescoes
Fascist architecture original painting. The were discovered in 1862.

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