Bartolomeo III Arese

Bartolomeo III Arese
Bartolomeo Arese
President of the Senate of Milan
In office
16 November 1660 – 24 June 1675
Preceded byLuigi Cusani
Succeeded byCarlo Belloni
Personal details
Born(1590-10-23)23 October 1590
Milan, Duchy of Milan
Died23 September 1674(1674-09-23) (aged 83)
Milan, Duchy of Milan
Resting placeSan Nazaro in Brolo
SpouseLucrezia Omodei
Children3
Parent
Alma materUniversity of Pavia
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Jurist

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

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 “robe nobility” (nobiltà di 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, whose work heavily influenced criminal procedure in civil law countries until the reforms of Cesare Beccaria. He married Lucrezia Omodei, granddaughter of the banker Emilio Omodei.

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

  • Gualdo Priorato, Galeazzo (1666). Relazione della città e stato di Milano sotto il governo dell'ecc.mo sig. Don Luigi of Guzman Ponze di Leone (in Italian). Milan: Lodovico Monza.
  • Leti, Gregorio (1854) [1st pub. 1678]. Il governo del duca d'Ossuna e la vita di Bartolomeo Arese (in Italian). Milan: Franc. Colombo.

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.