The Cimitero Monumentale ("
Monumental Cemetery") is one of the two largest cemeteries in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
,
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
, the other one being the
Cimitero Maggiore. It is noted for the abundance of artistic tombs and monuments.
Designed by the architect
Carlo Maciachini
Carlo Francesco Maciachini (sometimes spelled Maciacchini; 2 April 1818 – 10 June 1899) was an Italian architect and restorer. Born near Varese, he studied in Milan, where he also realized some of his most important works, most notably the Monu ...
(1818–1899), it was planned to consolidate a number of small cemeteries that used to be scattered around the city into a single location.
Officially opened in 1866, it has since then been filled with a wide range of contemporary and classical Italian sculptures as well as
Greek temple
Greek temples ( grc, ναός, naós, dwelling, semantically distinct from Latin , "temple") were structures built to house deity statues within Greek sanctuaries in ancient Greek religion. The temple interiors did not serve as meeting places, s ...
s, elaborate
obelisk
An obelisk (; from grc, ὀβελίσκος ; diminutive of ''obelos'', " spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top. Originally constructed by An ...
s, and other original works such as a scaled-down version of the
Trajan's Column
Trajan's Column ( it, Colonna Traiana, la, Columna Traiani) is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. It was probably constructed under the supervision of the architect Ap ...
. Many of the tombs belong to noted industrialist dynasties, and were designed by artists such as
Adolfo Wildt
Adolfo Wildt (March 1, 1868 – March 12, 1931) was an Italian sculptor. He is mostly known for his marble sculptures, which blend simplicity and sophistication, and paved the way for numerous modernist sculptors.http://translate.googleusercont ...
,
Giò Ponti
Giovanni "Gio" Ponti ( ͡ʒo18 November 1891 – 16 September 1979) was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher.
During his career, which spanned six decades, Ponti built more than a ...
,
Arturo Martini
Arturo Martini (1889–1947) was a leading Italian sculptor between World War I and II. He moved between a very vigorous (almost ancient Roman) classicism and modernism. He was associated with public sculpture in fascist Italy, but later renounc ...
,
Agenore Fabbri
Agenore Fabbri (20 May 1911 – 7 November 1998) was an Italian sculptor and painter. He moved between a rigorous expressionism and experimental informalism.
Biography
Fabbri was born in Quarrata (Tuscany). At the age of 12, he attended the ...
,
Lucio Fontana,
Medardo Rosso
Medardo Rosso (; 21 June 1858 – 31 March 1928) was an Italian sculptor. He is considered, like his contemporary and admirer Auguste Rodin, to be an artist working in a post-Impressionist style.
Biography and works
Rosso was born in Turin, w ...
,
Giacomo Manzù
Giacomo Manzù, pseudonym of Giacomo Manzoni (22 December 1908 – 17 January 1991), was an Italian sculptor.
Biography
Manzù was born in Bergamo. His father was a shoemaker. Other than a few evening art classes, he was self-taught in s ...
, Floriano Bodini, and
Giò Pomodoro
Giò Pomodoro (; 17 November 1930 – 21 December 2002) was an Italian sculptor, printmaker, and stage designer. His brother is the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro.
In 1954 he moved to Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in n ...
.
The main entrance is through the large Famedio, a massive ''Hall of Fame''-like Neo-Medieval style building made of
marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble is typically not foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the term ''marble'' refers to metamorphose ...
and stone that contains the tombs of some of the city's and the country's most honored citizens, including that of novelist
Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel '' The Betrothed'' (orig. it, I promessi sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the maste ...
.
The
Civico Mausoleo Palanti
The Edicola Palanti inside the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano, work by architect Mario Palanti built in 1924–28, become ''Civico Mausoleo'' to honorable citizens of Milan in on 4 February 1981. Famous graves inside are: Hermann Einstein, Walter ...
designed by the architect
Mario Palanti is a tomb built for meritorious "Milanesi", or citizens of Milan. The memorial of about 800 Milanese killed in Nazi concentration camps is located in the center and is the work of the group
BBPR
BBPR was an architectural partnership founded in Milan, Italy in 1932.
Partnership
The BBPR studio was formed in Milan in 1932 in a climate described by Giorgio Ciucci as “oscillating between differing and contrasting positions.” The name ...
, formed by leading exponents of Italian rationalist architecture that included Gianluigi Banfi.
The cemetery has a special section for those who do not belong to the Catholic religion and a
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
section.
Near the entrance there is a permanent exhibition of prints, photographs, and maps outlining the cemetery's historical development. It includes two battery-operated electric hearses built in the 1920s.
The Jewish Section
The section, designned by
Carlo Maciachini
Carlo Francesco Maciachini (sometimes spelled Maciacchini; 2 April 1818 – 10 June 1899) was an Italian architect and restorer. Born near Varese, he studied in Milan, where he also realized some of his most important works, most notably the Monu ...
, opened in 1872 to replace the cemeteries of Porta Tenaglia, Porta Magenta, and Porta Vercellina. It lies east of the Catholic cemetery and has a separate entrance. The area is the result of a 1913 expansione to the southern and east. The central building was originally the entrance to the cemetery.
Tomb numbering is repeated because the cemetery is divided into six fields and an addition in the eastern side. There are also three common fields, including one for children, where burials date from 1873 to 1894, with small gravestones on the ground bearing the names and dates of death.
The monuments, built from 1866 onward, are located along the walkways. There are also family shrines, two of which were designed by Maciachini, columbaria, and ossuaries along the northern and western cemetery walls and burials in the central building.
There are 1778 burials, some in memory of people killed by in Nazi concentration camps or in the
Lake Maggiore massacres
The Lake Maggiore massacres was a set of World War II war crimes that took place near Lake Maggiore, Italy, in September and October 1943. Despite strict orders not to commit any violence against civilians in the aftermath of the Italian surrende ...
, including at Meina.
There are many monuments of artistic value built by important architects and sculptors, described in the guide book by Giovanna Ginex and Ornella Selvafolta .
The following architects have worked in the Jewish section:
Carlo Maciachini
Carlo Francesco Maciachini (sometimes spelled Maciacchini; 2 April 1818 – 10 June 1899) was an Italian architect and restorer. Born near Varese, he studied in Milan, where he also realized some of his most important works, most notably the Monu ...
(Davide Leonino and Pisa shrines), Giovanni Battista Bossi (Anselmo de Benedetti tomb), Ercole Balossi Merlo (Leon David Levi shrine),
Luigi Conconi (Segre shrine), Giovanni Ceruti (Vitali shrine), Carlo Meroni (Taranto tomb), Cesare Mazzocchi (Giulio Foligno shrine), Manfredo d'Urbino (Jarach shrine, Mayer tomb, Besso tomb, Monument to the Jewish Martyrs of Nazism), Gigiotti Zanini (Zanini tomb), Adolfo Valabrega (Moisé Foligno shrine), Luigi Perrone (Goldfinger shrine). Sculptors whose work is found here include: Mario Quadrelli (Pisa shrine), Giuseppe Daniele Benzoni (Ottolenghi Finzi tomb), Luigi Vimercati (Estella Jung tomb), Agostino Caravati (Alessandro Forti tomb), Rizzardo Galli (Vittorio Finzi tomb),
Enrico Cassi (De Daninos tomb), Attilio Prendoni (Errera and Conforti tomb), Eduardo Ximenes (Treves shrine), Giulio Branca (Giovanni Norsa tomb), fratelli Bonfanti (Davide and Beniamino Foà tomb), Enrico Astorri (Carolina Padova and Fanny Levi Cammeo tomb), Egidio Boninsegna (Giuseppe Levi tomb), Dario Viterbo (Levi Minzi columbarium),
Giannino Castiglioni (Ettore Levis and Goldfinger tombs),
Adolfo Wildt
Adolfo Wildt (March 1, 1868 – March 12, 1931) was an Italian sculptor. He is mostly known for his marble sculptures, which blend simplicity and sophistication, and paved the way for numerous modernist sculptors.http://translate.googleusercont ...
(Cesare Sarfatti tomb), Eugenio Pellini (Bettino Levi tomb), Arrigo Minerbi (Renato del Mar tomb), Roberto Terracini (Nino Colombo tomb).
The central building was enhanced in May 2015 with artistic windows that represent the
Twelve Tribes of Israel
The Twelve Tribes of Israel ( he, שִׁבְטֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל, translit=Šīḇṭēy Yīsrāʾēl, lit=Tribes of Israel) are, according to Hebrew scriptures, the descendants of the biblical patriarch Jacob, also known as Israel, thro ...
by the artist Diego Pennacchio Ardemagni.
Crematorium
The cemetery contains the Crematorium Temple, which was the first
crematorium
A crematorium or crematory is a venue for the cremation of the dead. Modern crematoria contain at least one cremator (also known as a crematory, retort or cremation chamber), a purpose-built furnace. In some countries a crematorium can also b ...
to open in the
Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to the various nations and states in the regions of Europe, North America, and Oceania. . The crematorium opened in 1876 and was operational until 1992. The building is also a
columbarium
A columbarium (; pl. columbaria) is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns, holding cremated remains of the deceased.
The term can also mean the nesting boxes of pigeons. The term comes from the Latin "''colu ...
.
[Encyclopedia of Cremation by Lewis H. Mates (p. 21-23)] As with other early crematoria in Italy, it was built in
Greek Revival architecture.
Famous graves
Signals located throughout the cemetery point visitors to several of the most remarkable tombs and monuments. Some of the persons interred in the cemetery include:
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Alberto Ascari
Alberto Ascari (; 13 July 1918 – 26 May 1955) was an Italian racing driver and a two time Formula One World Champion. He was a multitalented racer who competed in motorcycle racing before switching to cars. Ascari won consecutive world titles ...
(1918–1955),
Formula One
Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...
champion driver
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Antonio Ascari
Antonio Ascari (15 September 1888 – 26 July 1925) was an Italian Grand Prix motor racing champion. He won four Grands Prix before his premature death at the 1925 French Grand Prix. He was the father of two-time World Champion Alberto Ascari.
Ea ...
(1888–1925),
Grand Prix champion driver
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Gae Aulenti
Gaetana "Gae" Aulenti (; 4 December 1927–31 October 2012) was an Italian architect and designer who was active in furniture design, graphic design, stage design, lighting design, exhibition and interior design. She was known for her contrib ...
(1927–2012), architect
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Lelio Basso (1903–1978), politician
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Ernesto Bazzaro
Ernesto Bazzaro (29 May 1859, Milan – 18 May 1937, Milan) was an Italian sculptor.
Biography
Like his elder brother, Leonardo, Ernesto Bazzaro studied at the Brera Academy in Milan, which he attended from 1875, winning the Luigi Canonica P ...
(1859–1937), sculptor
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Luca Beltrami (1854–1933), architect
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Antonio Bernocchi (1859–1939), industrialist
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Agostino Bertani (1812–1886), revolutionary, physician
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Arrigo Boito
Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) (whose original name was Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito and who wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best ...
(1842–1918), composer, librettist
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Camillo Boito
Camillo Boito (; 30 October 1836 – 28 June 1914) was an Italian architect and engineer, and a noted art critic, art historian and novelist.
Biography
Boito was born in Rome, the son of an Italian painter of miniatures. His mother was of Poli ...
(1836–1914), architect
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Gino Bramieri (1928–1996), comedian and actor
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Gaspare Campari (1828–1882), drink maker
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Candido Cannavò
Candido Cannavò (; 29 November 1930 – 22 February 2009) was an Italian journalist, well known as the historical editor (1983–2002) of the Italian sport newspaper ''La Gazzetta dello Sport''.
Biography
Cannavò was born in Catania and beg ...
(1930–2009), journalist
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Gianroberto Casaleggio
Gianroberto Casaleggio (; 14 August 1954 – 12 April 2016) was an Italian entrepreneur and political activist, born in Milan.
He was co-founder and chairman of Casaleggio Associati srl, an internet and publishing company that advises on networ ...
(1954–2016), entrepreneur, political activist
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Carlo Cattaneo (1801–1869), philosopher, patriot
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Alfredo Catalani (1854–1893), composer
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Camilla Cederna
Camilla Cederna (21 January 1911 – 5 November 1997) was an Italian writer and editor. She is said to have introduced investigative journalism to the Italian news media. Some sources give her year of birth as 1921.
Cederna was born in Milan w ...
(1911–1997), editor, writer
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Walter Chiari
Walter Annicchiarico (8 March 1924 – 20 December 1991), known as Walter Chiari , was an Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles.
Biography
Walter Annicchiarico was born in Verona, Italy on 8 March 1924 to a family originally ...
(1924–1991), actor
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Franco Corelli (1921–2003), opera tenor
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Valentina Cortese
Valentina Cortese (1 January 1923 – 10 July 2019) was an Italian actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in François Truffaut's ''Day for Night'' (1973).
Personal life
Cortese was born ...
(1923–2019), actress
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Philippe Daverio
Philippe Daverio (17 October 1949 – 2 September 2020) was an Italian art historian, gallerist, teacher, writer, author, politician, and television personality.
Biography
Daverio was born in Mulhouse, Alsace in 1949 from an Italian father, bu ...
(1949–2020), art historian
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Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (; 19 June 1926 – 14 March 1972) was an influential Italian publisher, businessman, and political activist who was active in the period between the Second World War and Italy's Years of Lead. He founded a vast library o ...
(1926–1972), publisher, businessman
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Filippo Filippi (1830–1887), journalist, music critic
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Dario Fo
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...
(1926–2016), 1997
Nobel prize in Literature
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Carla Fracci
Carolina "Carla" Fracci (; 20 August 1936 – 27 May 2021) was an Italian ballet dancer, actress and ballet director. Considered one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century, she was a leading dancer of La Scala Theatre Ballet in Milan, th ...
(1936–2021), ballet dancer
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Giorgio Gaber (1939–2003), singer-songwriter, comedian
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Giorgio Gaslini (1929–2014), jazz pianist, composer, conductor
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Luigi Giussani (1922–2005), priest, founder of "Communion and Liberation"
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Paolo Grassi
Paolo Grassi (30 October 1919 – 14 March 1981) was an Italian theatrical impresario.
Grassi was born in Milan, Italy. As a young man, he worked in magazines and discovered a passion for the theater. It led him in 1937 to create a Bertoldissimo ...
(1919–1981), theatrical impresario
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Francesco Hayez
Francesco Hayez (; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and ...
(1791–1882), painter
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Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz; yi, וולאַדימיר סאַמוילאָוויטש האָראָוויץ, group=n (November 5, 1989)Schonberg, 1992 was a Russian-born American classical pianist. Considered one of the greatest pianists of al ...
(1903–1989), pianist
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Herbert Kilpin
Herbert Kilpin (24 January 1870 – 22 October 1916) was an English football player and manager, best known as the main founding father of AC Milan. After playing as an amateur in his native city of Nottingham, in the early 1890s he moved to Ital ...
(1870–1916), founder of
A.C. Milan
Associazione Calcio Milan (), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional Association football, football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 ...
football club
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Anna Kuliscioff
Anna Kuliscioff (; rus, Анна Кулишёва, , ˈanːə kʊlʲɪˈʂovə; born Anna Moiseyevna Rozenshtein, ; 9 January 1857 – 27 December 1925) was a Russian-Italian revolutionary of Jewish origin, a prominent feminist, an anarchist in ...
(1857–1925), political activist
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Domenico Induno (1815–1878), painter
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Enzo Jannacci
Vincenzo Jannacci (3 June 1935 – 29 March 2013), more commonly known as Enzo Jannacci (), was an Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, actor and comedian. He is regarded as one of the most important artists in the post-war Italian music scene.
...
(1935–2013), singer-songwriter
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Alberto Lattuada (1914–2005), director
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Emilio Longoni (1859–1932), painter
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Carlo Maciachini
Carlo Francesco Maciachini (sometimes spelled Maciacchini; 2 April 1818 – 10 June 1899) was an Italian architect and restorer. Born near Varese, he studied in Milan, where he also realized some of his most important works, most notably the Monu ...
(1818–1899), architect
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Cesare Maldini (1932–2016), football player
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Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel '' The Betrothed'' (orig. it, I promessi sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the maste ...
(1785–1873), poet, novelist, considered the founder of modern Italian language; tomb located at the very center of the ''Famedio''
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (; 22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye d ...
(1876–1944), poet and main founder of the
futurist
Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities abo ...
movement
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Giuseppe Meazza
Giuseppe "Peppino" Meazza (; 23 August 1910 – 21 August 1979), also known as il Balilla, was an Italian football manager and player. Throughout his career, he played mainly for Inter Milan in the 1930s, scoring 242 goals in 365 games for the ...
(1910–1979), football player and manager
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Alda Merini (1931–2009), poet
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Lina Merlin (1887–1979), politician
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Franco Moschino
Franco Moschino (27 February 1950 – 18 September 1994) was an Italian fashion designer best known as the founder of the Italian fashion house Moschino.
Early years
He was born in Abbiategrasso, Lombardy, located c. 22 km from Milan. ...
(1950–1994), fashion designer
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Bruno Munari
Bruno Munari (October 24, 1907 in Milan – September 29, 1998 in Milan) was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design) in ...
(1907–1998), artist
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Bob Noorda (1927–2010), graphic designer
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Magda Olivero
Magda Olivero (née Maria Maddalena Olivero) (25 March 1910 – 8 September 2014), was an Italian operatic soprano. Her career started in 1932 when she was 22, and spanned five decades, establishing her "as an important link between the era of th ...
(1910–2014), opera soprano
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Wanda Osiris (1905–1994), soubrette, actress, singer
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Giuseppe Palanti
Giuseppe Palanti (30 July 1881 – 23 April 1946) was an Italian painter, illustrator, and urban planner, best known for his portraits, notably of Mussolini and Pius XI. He had a long collaboration with Teatro alla Scala in Milan, creating c ...
(1881–1946), painter
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Mario Palanti (1885–1978), architect
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Giovanni Pesce (1918–2007), communist partisan
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Giulietta Pezzi (1810–1878), writer
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Francesco Maria Piave
Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 18105 March 1876) was an Italian opera librettist who was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.
Career
Piave's career spanned over twenty years working with many of th ...
(1810–1876), librettist, poet
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Giò Pomodoro
Giò Pomodoro (; 17 November 1930 – 21 December 2002) was an Italian sculptor, printmaker, and stage designer. His brother is the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro.
In 1954 he moved to Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in n ...
(1930–2002), artist
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Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886), composer
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Gio Ponti
Giovanni "Gio" Ponti ( ͡ʒo18 November 1891 – 16 September 1979) was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher.
During his career, which spanned six decades, Ponti built more than a ...
(1891–1979), architect, industrial designer, artist
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Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo (; August 20, 1901 – June 14, 1968) was an Italian poet and translator. In 1959, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own time ...
(1901–1968), 1959 Nobel prize in Literature
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Franca Rame
Franca Rame (18 July 1929 – 29 May 2013) was an Italian theatre actress, playwright and political activist. She was married to Nobel laureate playwright Dario Fo and is the mother of writer Jacopo Fo. Fo dedicated his Nobel Prize to her ...
(1929–2013), political activist, actress
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Medardo Rosso
Medardo Rosso (; 21 June 1858 – 31 March 1928) was an Italian sculptor. He is considered, like his contemporary and admirer Auguste Rodin, to be an artist working in a post-Impressionist style.
Biography and works
Rosso was born in Turin, w ...
(1858–1928), sculptor
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Piero Sacerdoti (1905–1966), insurer
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Rosa Chiarina Scolari
Rosa Chiarina Scolari ( Livraga, 16 November 1882 – Milan, 12 April 1949) was an Italian nun who helped the Italian resistance movement in Milan during the final days of World War II.
Biography
Born to Lodovico Scolari and Regina Crespi in ...
(1882–1949) was a Mother Superior who helped the Italian resistance movement
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Temistocle Solera
Temistocle Solera (25 December 1815 – 21 April 1878) was an Italian opera composer and librettist.
Life and career
He was born in Ferrara. He received his education at the Imperial College in Vienna and at the University of Pavia. Throughou ...
(1815–1878), poet, opera composer, librettist
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Mario Tiberini
Mario Tiberini (8 September 1826 – 16 October 1880) was an Italian tenor who sang leading roles in the opera houses of Europe and the Americas in a career spanning 25 years. Known for his advanced singing technique and dramatic ability, he sang ...
(1826–1880) and his wife
Angiolina Ortolani-Tiberini (1834–1913), opera singers.
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Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957), conductor and cellist
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Giovanni Treccani
Giovanni Treccani (; 3 January 1877 – 6 July 1961) was an Italian textile industrialist, publisher and cultural patron. He sponsored the Giovanni Treccani Institute, established 18 February 1925 to publish the ''Enciclopedia Italiana'' (cur ...
(1877–1961), publisher
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Filippo Turati
Filippo Turati (; 26 November 1857 – 29 March 1932) was an Italian sociologist, criminologist, poet and socialist politician.
Early life
Born in Canzo, province of Como, he graduated in law at the University of Bologna in 1877, and participa ...
(1857–1932), politician
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Leo Valiani
Leo Valiani (''Weiczen Leó''; 9 February 1909 – 18 September 1999) was an Italian historian, politician and journalist.
Early life
Valiani was born in ''Fiume'' (now Rijeka), on the Adriatic Sea (then in Hungarian part of Austria-Hunga ...
(1909–1999), writer, politician
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Adolfo Wildt
Adolfo Wildt (March 1, 1868 – March 12, 1931) was an Italian sculptor. He is mostly known for his marble sculptures, which blend simplicity and sophistication, and paved the way for numerous modernist sculptors.http://translate.googleusercont ...
(1868–1931), sculptor
Mayors of Milan
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Aldo Aniasi (1921–2005), Mayor (1967–1976)
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Giulio Belinzaghi
Giulio Belinzaghi (17 October 1818 – 28 August 1892) was an Italian politician. He was mayor of Cernobbio, Province of Como, Lombardy (1864–1868). He was twice mayor of Milan
The mayor of Milan ( it, sindaco di Milano) is the first citizen ...
(1818–1892), Mayor (1867–1884; 1889–1892)
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Emilio Caldara (1868–1942), Mayor (1914–1920)
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Gino Cassinis
Gino Cassinis (27 January 1885 – 13 January 1964) was an Italian Democratic Socialist Party politician. He was born in Milan. He was mayor of Milan. He was knight grand cross and grand officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. H ...
(1885–1964), Mayor (1961–1964)
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Virgilio Ferrari (1888–1975), Mayor (1951–1961)
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Angelo Filippetti (1866–1936), Mayor (1920–1922)
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Marco Formentini (1930–2021), Mayor (1993–1997)
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Emanuele Greppi (1853–1931), Mayor (1911–1914)
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Carlo Tognoli (1938–2021), Mayor (1976–1986)
Gallery
File:Edicola Bernocchi.jpg, Mausoleum of Antonio Bernocchi by Giannino Castiglioni (1930s)
File:Campari Family. Ph Ivan Stesso.jpg, The Last Supper, Campari
Campari () is an Italian alcoholic liqueur, considered an apéritif (20.5%, 21%, 24%, 25%, or 28.5% ABV, depending on the country where it is sold), obtained from the infusion of herbs and fruit (including chinotto and cascarilla) in alcohol a ...
family tomb
File:Arturo Toscanini grave Milan 2015.jpg, Arturo Toscanini's tomb
File:Il Monumento al monumentale 10.jpg, Morgagni family monument
File:Cimitero Monumentale (Milan)Oktober2016 - 5.jpg, Cemetery section from above
Other famous graves
File:Dario Fo Franca Rame Grave.JPG, Dario Fo
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...
and Franca Rame
Franca Rame (18 July 1929 – 29 May 2013) was an Italian theatre actress, playwright and political activist. She was married to Nobel laureate playwright Dario Fo and is the mother of writer Jacopo Fo. Fo dedicated his Nobel Prize to her ...
File:Francesco Hayez grave Milan 2015.jpg, Francesco Hayez
Francesco Hayez (; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and ...
File:Bob Noorda grave Milan 2015.jpg, Bob Noorda
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Giuseppe "Peppino" Meazza (; 23 August 1910 – 21 August 1979), also known as il Balilla, was an Italian football manager and player. Throughout his career, he played mainly for Inter Milan in the 1930s, scoring 242 goals in 365 games for the ...
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Salvatore Quasimodo (; August 20, 1901 – June 14, 1968) was an Italian poet and translator. In 1959, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own time ...
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See also
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Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, in
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...
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Certosa di Bologna, the site of the
city's monumental cemetery
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Monumental Cemetery of Bonaria
The Monumental Cemetery of Bonaria is located in Cagliari
Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name '' ...
in
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...
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External links
Video with photos from cemetery
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cimitero Monumentale Di Milano
Cemeteries in Milan
Tourist attractions in Milan
1866 establishments in Italy
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