Agostino Gemelli bought the old monastery of Sant'Ambrogio, freed from the transfer of the military hospital, which until then had been housed there.
In 1919 Father Agostino Gemelli, Ludovico Necchi, Francesco Olgiati, Armida Barelli, and Ernesto Lombardo founded the institute.
This School, founded in 1999, had its origin when Agostino Gemelli founded in 1924, the institute of psychology and biology characterized by innovative research tools for the time.
Agostino Ramelli | Agostino Nifo | Agostino Gemelli | Agostino Bassi | Gigi D'Agostino | Jon D'Agostino | Agostino di Duccio | Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic | Agostino Chigi | Agostino Barbarigo | Theresa D'Agostino | Roberto D'Agostino | Politicians of The Wire#Theresa D'Agostino | Peter D'Agostino | Kenny Agostino | Gaetano D'Agostino | Engraving 'after Agostino Brunias' (ca 1801) entitled ''A Negro Festival drawn from Nature in the Island of St Vincent''. National Maritime Museum | Ángel D'Agostino | Albert S. D'Agostino | Agostino von Hassell | Agostino Veracini | Agostino Straulino | Agostino Scilla | Agostino Casaroli | Agostino Busti | Agostino Brunias | Agostino Agresta |
Similarly to Manzoni, Corti mixes fictional individual stories with actual history, going as far as inserting real characters in the plot: for example Father Carlo Gnocchi, Nilde Iotti, Agostino Gemelli, Corti's brother Piero (partly recognizable in Pino Riva).