Palazzo Borromeo
Palazzo Borromeo matters in Milan because it was built for a merchant-banking dynasty, not court display: it served as the home and business headquarters of the Borromeo family, merchant-bankers from Tuscany. The complex is described as a 14th-century building, and some of it dates to the 1400s; it holds an important fresco cycle from the 1440s and is counted among the finest early-Renaissance patrician palaces in the city. Its fortunes were tied to the politics of the duchy of Milan. The Borromei’s rise in Milan followed the execution of Filippo in 1370, after which his wife and five children fled; the next generation helped Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti by supplying financial connections across Italy, Spain, and northern Europe. …
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