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the first castle became in the first half the sixth century owned by the Carcano that turned it into a palace.

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The name Villa Pusterla-Crivelli comes from the novel written by Cesare Cantù, " Margherita Pusterla" published in 1838. the novel is located in the mansion based on the facts and intrigues of the Milanese court in the age of Visconti.

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from 1543 the palace was owned by the Arconati who trasformed it in a country mansion by Anna Visconti's will who had impressive works carried out in the 80s by the project Martino Bassi. The works then passed to the son Luigi Arconati.

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1. What is name of the writer from which the name of the villa is inspired?

2. Who is continuing the work started by Anna Visconti in the '80s?

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in 1719 the villa began to be owned by the Crivelli. count Stefano Gaetano Crivelli the one who commanded the works that turned the building in the one that we know today projected by the architect Francesco Croce. with count Giuseppe the villa known its most glorious period of time.

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in 1786 it guest twice Ferdinando IV king of the kingdom of the two sicily, and in the second half of the '700 Luigi Castiglioni important figure in the illuministic colture in the end of the '700.

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in 1797, between may and november the villa became   the headquarters of napoleon. on the 17th of july 1819 count Ferdinando Crivelli sold villa to the Catena brothers.  the villa was sold again later , but between the '30 and the '50 the villa passed through decay period.

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on the 11th of february 1865 property passed to Milan province and it became the site of the psichiatric ward. and then in 1978 after psichiatric ward shut down it's became the site of the school.

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Anna visconti ordered some works to Martino Bassi ( architect of the cathedral of Milan ). with the works they realize porch on the west part of the villa. the porch was closed when the villa became the site of the psychatric hospital, while the second, wich was closed, is now open.

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in 1750 count Stefano Gaetano Crivelli requested the intervention of Francesco Croce. those interventions were:
- recostruction of the north wing duplicating the rooms
- construction of the big stairs we can see today
- redoing of the towers
- realization of the italian garden
- trasformation of the oratory

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the terrace wall was built by the heir of Luigi Arconati.
It was transformed by Francesco Croce: it was enriched with stairs and balustrades within which the central staircase was incorporated.

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the Italian garden was the reinassance garden, that expressed the ideals of armony typical of that period.

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the garden is today the result of the work of the teachers and the students of the school.
The plants were chosen to have different kinds of flowers in every moment of the year.

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the difference between the North wing and the west and south. the first was made halfway in the '700, while the other part at the end of the '700.

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the first colonnade was made by Martino Bassi. It's sustained by white marble columns.

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The staircase was projected by Francesco Croce, to replace another way to acess to the second floor.
The style is lombard baroque

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In this fresco he illustrates an old man with wings supporting a site scythe which symbolizes the brevity of life.

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another Fresco by Borroni, locaten in the "binocular room".
it represents Hercules taming Nemeo (the lion)

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In 1865 Cesare Castiglioni director of the psychiatric hospital called " Senavra " proposed to transfert the quietest patients to the  Crivelli Villa. The hospital became in the years the largest psychiatric hospital in  Lombardy. The hospital expanded with new constructions to fight the increasing number of hospitalized patients. Since 1911  professor Antonini became director of the psychiatric hospital up to 1930 bringing improvements to the hospital. At the time the most widespread diseases were:
- syphilis ( contracted through unprotected sexual relations )
- pellagra ( contracted through excessive consumption of polenta)

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In 1915 after the Second World War war veterans traumatized by the trenches and the dead  were hospitalized. The treatments that were used are lobotomy and insulin injections ( that caused a coma ). Subsequently with the law n 180/1978 (Basaglia law) approved on April 14, 1978 led to the closure and dismantling of the psychiatric facility.

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Alessandro Gallenzi in the book "The lost son" gives us back an era of pain and humanity.

It's 1933. the XI year of the Fascist Era, when Giuseppe,  crosses the line that leads to the psychiatric hospital in Mombello. He hasn't got a home or a family anymore, he only had the hope they could cure him from the "epilepsy" that suddenly posesses him.
His days are monotonous, until he meets a boy his age that calls himself "Benito Mussolini" and says he's the duce's son Hospitalized in the Agitated section, Benito Albino Bernardiis was afraid that the nurses will poison him and started manifesting some disturbing signs, because he knew he would never come out of the hospital. Not even Giuseppe, his only friend, gave him a reason to go on, but he had to tell the story about his end.

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the 15th of may 1796, afret beating the austrian troups, enters triumphantly in Milan.
the 6th of may 1797, Bonaparte sucsessfully ends the war with armistice of Leoben. While he waits to sign the peace treaty, he decides to transferhis residence to Milan. The place he chooses is Montebello (now Mombello), in the beautiful villa Pusterla-Crivelli. we surely know that the villa was occupied by Napoleon's court from may to october 1797.
the villa isn't only Napoleon's headquarters, but the site of a real and proper court. Napoleon also brings all his family with him. The generals who took part in Napoleon's victories and the aides-de-camp also frequent Mombello.
life is all parties, banquets and polithycal meetings, but Elisa and Paolina start a confictual relationship with Josephine, that doesn't also get along with Napoleon's mother.

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Paolina, Napoleon's favourite sister, starts a relationship with general Lecrerc when she was barely sixteen; but, after being caught, the two are forced to get married. on the 13 of june 1797, Paolina and Leclerc, together with Elisa and Felice Baciocchi, go towards the oratoryto celebrate the double wedding. but the ortory is closed! so a bunch of knights go to the archbishp to get the authorization to celebrate the wedding, that is brought with a big hurry to the Villa.
it's three in the morning, it's still dark, dark like general's Leclerc destiny.