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Carlo Emilio Gadda Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
(1893–1973) Born in Busseto, in the province of
Milanese by birth, Gadda Parma, Verdi moved to Milan at a
was one of the great 20th- very early age. His third opera,
century authors. One of Nabucco (1842), brought him
his major works, L’Adalgisa, fame. He died at the Grand
celebrates the lives of Hotel et de Milan, which
middle-class Milanese he had made his home.
and ends with the hero
cleaning the tombs in the
Monumental Cemetery.

VIA MELCHIORRE GIOIA considered the greatest Italian
Alessandro Manzoni
(1785–1873)
Manzoni wrote what is
NORTHEAST
plays and poetry. His house in
(See pp106–125) novel, The Betrothed, as well as
Piazza Belgioioso (see p53) is
open to the public.
CORSO BUENOS AIRES
VIALE
VIALE TUNISIA
CORSO SEMPIONE
VIA DELLA
VITTORIO VENETO
MOSCOVA
Cesare Beccaria (1738–94)
VIA LEGNANO
A leading exponent of
the Enlightenment
VIA VINCENZO
VIA MARIO PAGANO MONTI NORTHWEST VIA A. MANZONI CORSO VENEZIA VIALE PIAVE representative work, On
movement in Milan,
Beccaria wrote its most
(See pp62–77)
Crimes and Punishment.
him is a monument in
HISTORIC In the square named after
his honour.
CORSO MAGENTA
CENTRE VIALE PREMUDA
(See pp44–61)
SOUTHEAST
The Verri Brothers
(See pp94–105) Pietro (1728–97) and
Alessandro (1741–1816)
GENOVA SOUTHWEST VIALE MONTE NERO Enlightenment figures
Verri met other noted
(See pp78–93)
at the Caffè Greco,
CORSO CORSO DI PORTA TICINESE where they conceived
opposite the Duomo,
the influential
RIPA DI PORTA periodical Il Caffè.
TICINESE
Carlo Porta (1775–1821)
A poet who wrote in Milanese
dialect, Porta offered a vivacious
description of the society of his
time in his satirical poems. There
is a monument in his honour in
Piazza Santo Stefano, which was
the setting for one of his best-
known works, Ninetta del Verzee.

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