Palazzo Arese (also known as Palazzo Arese Lucini and Palazzo Arese

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) was a 16th century

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palace and seat of a branch of the

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, Italy. It was located adjacent to Casa Fontana Silvestri near the Porta Orientale (today

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n°8). The palazzo was demolished in 1943 following damage sustained during the

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. Between 1565 and 1571 the

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family bought and demolished several houses on the site and originally built the palace in the baroque style. On 13 October 1679, Marco Arese (1637-1695), senator, supreme regent of the Council of Italy, and president of the ordinary magistrate, bought the property from Carlo Francesco Serbelloni, exchanging it in part with a palace and other buildings once belonging to Bartolomeo III Arese. From 1679 the home hosted the governor of the State of Milan, Paolo Spinola, marquis de los Balbases, count of Melgar. The facade was remodelled in the neoclassical style between 1810 and 1814 by Innocente Domenico Giusti on the recommendation of city authorities and the Napoleonic viceroy as part of the renovation of the Corso di Porta Orientale. General Giovanni Francesco Arese (1642 – 1721) displayed his notable collection of paintings in the house, including works by

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, Ribera,

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, and Moroni. Much of the collection was sold in 1812, during the building's renovation, to Prince

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, viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy. In this same period, the palazzo was home to

Antonietta Fagnani Arese Antonietta Fagnani Arese (Milan, 19 November 1778 – Genoa, 11 December 1847) was an Milanese noble woman, translator of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe, and correspondent of Ugo Foscolo. Biography Antonia Barbara Giulia Faustina Angiola L ...

(1778–1847), the subject of

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's ode "All'amica risanata." Foscolo describes the palazzo in numerous letters to the countess of

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. During the air raids of 1943, much of the interior of the building was seriously damaged by a fire, while the external architecture of the courtyard and the monumental staircase were only slightly damaged. The current building at 8

is said to retain one of Palazzo's neoclassical balconies in its facade.

Gallery

File:Door 1 Palazzo Arese.jpg, Osvaldo Lissoni, ''A door of Palazzo Arese Pallavicini,'' 1911–1917, Milan, Italy File:Door 2 Palazzo Arese.jpg, Osvaldo Lissoni, ''A door of Palazzo Arese Pallavicini,'' 1924–1925, Milan, Italy File:Palazzo Arese - 8 Corso Venezia - Milano.tif, Corso Venezia with Palazzo Arese in the background File:Casa-ilvestri-Corso-Venezia cartolina-storica taglio-articolo.jpg, Corso Venezia with Casa Fontana Silvestri and Palazzo Arese behind it.

References

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