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4 unusual facts about Federico Borromeo


Ascona

In 1616, Cardinal Federico Borromeo, placed the school under the authority of the Congregation of the Oblate of Milan, which led the school until 1798.

Cardinal Borromeo

Federico Borromeo (1564–1631), also cardinal from 1587, and archbishop of Milan from 1595, important patron of art

Federico Borromeo

Federico Borromeo appears as a character in Alessandro Manzoni’s novel The Betrothed (I promessi sposi), in which he is characterized as an intelligent humanist and saintly servant of Christ, serving the people of Milan unselfishly during the 1630 plague.

In 1609 he founded the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, a college of writers, a seminary of savants, a school of fine arts, and, after the Bodleian at Oxford, the first genuinely public library in Europe.


The Nun of Monza

When the Archbishop Federico Borromeo came to know about the scandal he ordered a canonical trial of the nun.


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