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32  INTRODUCING MILAN

Famous Residents and Visitors

Many leading figures in Italian cultural life Carlo Emilio Gadda
are connected in some way with Milan, from (1893–1973)
intellectuals, journalists and politicians to Milanese by birth, Gadda
was one of the great 20th-
composers, writers and poets. The Italian century authors. One of
novelist Alessandro Manzoni was born in his major works, L’Adalgisa,
Milan, and many other artists have been celebrates the lives of
drawn here, hoping to make their fortune middle-class Milanese
and ends with the hero
(an illustrious example is Giuseppe Verdi) or, cleaning the tombs in the
more simply, to find work. One of the most Monumental Cemetery.
widespread, and perhaps most accurate,
sayings about Milan is that it is an open,
VIA MELCHIORRE GIOIA
receptive city ready to give strangers and
foreigners a sincere, if brusque, welcome.

NORTHEAST
(See pp106–125)
Giorgio Strehler CORSO SEMPIONE
(1921–97) VIALE TUNISIA
In 1947 the great VIALE
Trieste-born director
founded the Piccolo VIA DELLA VITTORIO VENETO CORSO BUENOS AIRES
Teatro della Città VIA LEGNANO MOSCOVA
di Milano with
Paolo Grassi. VIA VINCENZO
It was the first
permanent
theatre MONTI NORTHWEST VIALE PIAVE
in Italy. VIA MARIO PAGANO (See pp62–77) VIA A. MANZONI CORSO VENEZIA

HISTORIC
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) CORSO MAGENTA CENTRE VIALE PREMUDA
In 1482 Lodovico il Moro invited (See pp44–61)
Leonardo da Vinci to his court in Milan,
where he remained for almost 20 years.
He left a number of works, including the SOUTHEAST
Codex Atlanticus, now in the Biblioteca (See pp94–105)
Ambrosiana and The Last Supper, in
Santa Maria delle Grazie (see pp74–5).
GENOVA SOUTHWEST VIALE MONTE NERO
(See pp78–93)
CORSO CORSO DI PORTA TICINESE

RIPA DI PORTA
TICINESE
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Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)
In 1919, in Milan’s Piazza San Sepolcro, Mussolini founded the
Fasci Nazionali di Combattimento, the nucleus of the future Fascist
movement. On 16 December 1944 Mussolini gave his last speech
at the Teatro Lirico in Milan. A few months later, on 26 April 1945,
his corpse was hung upside down in Piazzale Loreto.

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