The Milan of Napoleon
A laboratory of revolutionary ideas. 1796-1821.
The Braidense Library, where the autograph of Alessandro Manzoni’sCinque Maggio is preserved, could not miss, on May 5, 2021, the event celebrating the 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death.
Prima carta della minuta autografa del 5 maggio di Alessandro Manzoni Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
The years from the arrival of the army of republican France to the Restoration that followed Napoleon’s defeat were extremely intense years that revolutionized the political and cultural structure of Italy, the years in which the sense of a modern nation was born and the first unitary state bearing the name Italy was created.
"La Milano di Napoleone", Sala Maria Teresa
Milan was its capital, and to that period the Braidense owes its National status. To this particular moment that marked the political and cultural life of Milan, an exhibition “Napoleon’s Milan: a workshop of revolutionary ideas. 1796-1821,” which displays very rare documents and autographs from the period.
The Milan of Napoleon
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