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The Ospedale Maggiore, traditionally named Ca' Granda (i.e. Big House), is a building in the center of Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
 constructed to house one of the first community hospitals, the largest such undertaking of the fifteenth century. Commissioned by Francesco Sforza
Francesco I Sforza

Francesco I Sforza was an Italian condottiero, the founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan, Italy. He was the brother of Alessandro Sforza, with whom he often fought....
 in 1456 and designed by Antonio Filarete
Filarete

Antonio di Pietro Averlino , also "Averulino", known as Filarete , was a Florentine architect, sculpture and architectural theorist of the Italian Renaissance....
 it is among the first examples of Renaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, in which there was a conscious revival and development of certain elements of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome thought and material culture....
 in Lombardy
Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
.

Even if the old buildings of the Ospedale Maggiore host today the State University of Milan, you can still find in it – apart from the beautiful original architecture - some of the “relics” of its glorious medical and sanitary history.

cesco Sforza founded this hospital in 1456 “AD SUSTENTANDOS CHRISTI PAUPERES” (for the sustenance of Christ’s poors).






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The Ospedale Maggiore, traditionally named Ca' Granda (i.e. Big House), is a building in the center of Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
 constructed to house one of the first community hospitals, the largest such undertaking of the fifteenth century. Commissioned by Francesco Sforza
Francesco I Sforza

Francesco I Sforza was an Italian condottiero, the founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan, Italy. He was the brother of Alessandro Sforza, with whom he often fought....
 in 1456 and designed by Antonio Filarete
Filarete

Antonio di Pietro Averlino , also "Averulino", known as Filarete , was a Florentine architect, sculpture and architectural theorist of the Italian Renaissance....
 it is among the first examples of Renaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, in which there was a conscious revival and development of certain elements of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome thought and material culture....
 in Lombardy
Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
.

Even if the old buildings of the Ospedale Maggiore host today the State University of Milan, you can still find in it – apart from the beautiful original architecture - some of the “relics” of its glorious medical and sanitary history.

Memorial tablet of the Hospital foundation

Francesco Sforza founded this hospital in 1456 “AD SUSTENTANDOS CHRISTI PAUPERES” (for the sustenance of Christ’s poors). The memorial tablet is located on the portal that today gives access to the University Law Library, under the right arcades of the central courtyard.

Memorial tablet of Saint Camillus de Lellis

Saint Camillus de Lellis
Camillus de Lellis

Saint Camillus de Lellis was an Italy monk who founded a religious order....
 spent some time nursing the patients of this hospital as recorded by the stone tablet on a portal, near the entrance to the central Church of the Annunziata (ten meters to the right), in the central courtyard. The inscription on the tablet reads:
“SAN CAMILLO DE LELLIS 1550-1614 / INFERMIERE NELLA CROCIERA DI QUESTA ANTICA CA GRANDA / CON LA PAROLA E L’ESEMPIO / INSEGNO’ A SERVIRE I MALATI E AD AMARLI / ‘CON QUELL’AFFETTO CHE SUOL UNA AMOREVOLE MADRE / AL SUO UNICO FIGLIUOLO INFERMO’ / NEL 4° CENTENARIO – 16-4-1983”.


Luigi Mangiagalli's Statue

Just passed the main entrance to the Ca’ Granda, on the left, there is the big bronze statue of Luigi Mangiagalli (1849-1928), famous italian obstetrician and gynaecologist, mayor of Milan (1922) and founder of the State University of the town (1923). On the pedestal of the statue, you can read the following inscription:
“LUIGI / MANGIAGALLI / UMANISTA / MEDICO E FILANTROPO / CREO’ L’UNIVERSITA’ / DI MILANO / VOLLE PIU’ GRANDE LA / METROPOLI LOMBARDA. / I MILANESI”.