Bartolomeo Arese

Bartolomeo III Arese count of Castel Lambro born in Milan on 23 October 1590 and died in the same city on 23 September 1674 was an Italian nobleman, politician, and prominent member of the House of Arese.[1]

Biography

Memorabilia decisionum Senatus Mediolani Arese presidente et regente conte Bartolomeo, manuscript, 17th century

Bartolomeo Arese son of nobleman Giulio I Arese was born in Milan on October 23, 1590. His father belonged to a rich Milanese family of "nobility of toga" which, especially between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was the center of bureaucracy in the Milanese domains.[2] His paternal grandmother, Hippolita Clari, was the daughter of Giulio (1525-1575), a famous jurist from Alexandria, who, for almost two centuries before Cesare Beccaria, set up the first Code of "Criminal Procedure" in Milan.

While governing the Milanese domains, Bartolomeo III was the city's principle patron of baroque architecture, art, and music, commissioning Palazzo Arese (later Arese Litta) in Milan by Francesco Maria Richini, extensive additions to Palazzo Arese (later Arese Borromeo) in Cesano Maderno, renovations of San Nicolao, Milan and Santa Maria alla Porta, Milan by Francesco Borromini, the Arese Chapel (Chapel of the Assumption) in San Vittore al Corpo, Milan by Antonio Busca, painting cycles by Giuseppe Nuvolone, Ercole Procaccini the Younger, Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia, and Giovanni Stefano Danedi in the Ducal Palace of Milan (now Royal Palace of Milan), and concertos by Francesco Rognoni Taeggio, Giovanni Battista Beria, Teodoro Casati, Federico Pedroni, and Carlo Giuseppe Sanromano.[3][4]

Bibliography

  • (in Italian) Leti, Il governo del duca of Ossuna and the vita di Bartolomeo Arese, Milan, 1678.
  • (in Italian) Gualdo Priorato, Relazione della città e stato di Milano sotto il governo dell'ecc.mo sig. Don Luigi of Guzman Ponze di Leone, Milan, 1666.

Notes

  1. ↑ (in Italian) Bartolomeo Arese e il Senato di Milano, storiadimilano.it
  2. ↑ della Torre, Francesco (1682). The life of count Bartolomeo Arese, president of the Senate of Milan (La vita del conte Bartolomeo Arese, presidente del Senato di Milano.
  3. ↑ Coppa, Simonetta (2003). "Un ciclo ritrovato del secondo Seicento milanese: Le "Storie del Battista" per l'oratorio segreto della chiesa di San Giovanni alle Case Rotte". Arte Lombarda. 137 (1): 121–124. ISSN 0004-3443. JSTOR 43132524.
  4. ↑ Pelà, Ivan; Brunelli, Donatella (2003). ""Per lealtà mantener". Le raccolte musicali secentesche dedicate agli Arese". Arte Lombarda. 138 (2): 41–44. ISSN 0004-3443. JSTOR 43106364.
  • (in Italian) Bartolomeo Arese - treccani.it
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