https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc en-us 2022-09-21 13:37:38 UTC 2025-11-04 19:47:25 UTC hello@padlet.com noemiceredas https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2306941166 Located in Mombello, Limbiate, Villa Pusterla Crivelli is well known around the world for its beautiful architecture and interesting backstory.
The villa is named after Margherita Pusterla, a novel by Cesare Cantù  published in 1838.
the Carcano family, during the early Middle Ages, decided to transform the building into a palace. 
in 1543 the palace passed to the Arconati family, that turned it into an elegant country house.]]> 2022-09-21 14:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2306941166 noemiceredas https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2310427692 In 1719 the villa passed to the Crivelli family, that turned it into a beautiful villa.
And in the second half of the 1700 Luigi Castiglioni, a famous biologist imported many plants into the garden of the villa.
In 1797 the villa became the headquarter of Napoleone.
in 1819 Ferdinando Crivelli sold the villa to a rich family and later, in 1865, it became property of the Italian state that turned it into a psychiatric hospital.
In 1978 the hospital was closed and the villa became a school.]]> 2022-09-23 12:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2310427692 noemiceredas https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2310458121 The destiny of villa as always been conncted to the history of Italy expecially with wars for "Lombardia" and the following control by Spain, and the next dominion by the Asburgo, with their importance real estate registry.
At that time the villa was property of the Crivelli family who supported the Austrian and that's why Napoleon chose the villa as his headquarter in the 1797.
After the first world war the villa became a "nuthouse" for the survivors that came back traumatised.
In this "nuthouse" was hospitalised Albino Benito Berardi, the illegittimate son of Mussolini diagnosed with a paranoic disorder, he died in 1942.
After the Basaglia's law in 1978 all the nuthouses had been closed and the villa became a psichiatric hospital that was definitely close in 1999.

]]> 2022-09-23 13:01:57 UTC https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2310458121 lecchinivittorio00 https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2317524044 Near the year 1580 Anna Visconti wanted to restruturate the villa with the help of Martino Bassi, the architet of the Duomo.
He builted a porch, that later was closed, when the villa was used as a sanitary.
Later Luigi wanted another porch, that was used as a passage from the south wing to the north wing.
Near the 1750 Stefano Crivelli requedted the intervent of Francesco Croce, he rebuilted the north wing, he builted a staircase in the north wing and a space near the nobile court.
Later with Carlo Soave the east and south where redisegned in neoclassic stile.
When the villa became the psichiatric ospital, the pourt was closed

]]> 2022-09-28 13:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2317524044 noemiceredas https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2321012834
The balcony and the garden
The terrace was very different when it was built, it was transformed by Francesco Croce, the central stairs were inglobated by the new stairs.
The garden was realised in Italian style, with very precise geometric forms, fountains and statues, these things were used to express the ideals of harmony and balance.

The garden today and the facades
Today the garden is realized by the students and the teachers.
The North wing is different from the other wings, because it has been realised in the '700 by Francesco Croce in Baroque style]]> 2022-09-30 13:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2321012834 noemiceredas https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2321037630 The first collonate was realised by Martino Bassi, its pen on the ovest facade and its substained by white granite pillars.
One of the porticos was closed and its still closed, another one was closed and its now open.]]> 2022-09-30 13:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2321037630 noemiceredas https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2331034389 This fresco is painted by Borroni, it shows an old man, Chronos, the titan of the time, he is the father of Zeus, Poseidon and Ade, in the left hand he is holding a scythe, it rapresents death, and is the rapresentation of Carlo VI, the roses in the fresco have the same meaning, the death.
This fresco represents the cycle of the life.
In this fresco there are two women, one of them representst fertility and life; so the whole fresco symbolizes the cycle of life.]]> 2022-10-07 13:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2331034389 noemiceredas https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2331066534 This fresco is in a room called " del cannocchiale" because Napoleon used to stay in that room when the enemies were coming.
The fresco rapresents three entitis, one of them is Hercules, that rapresents Carlo VI that domesticated a lion, because of his power, this is a comparison of the French domination.
We can see a "vittoria alata", a symbol of rebirth, this is a big figure because it represents the daughter of Carlo VI, the one that ascend to the throne, this figure is represented in front of her fathers' funeral pyre, there is an angel that is carrying a crown for the new queen after Carlo VI death.]]> 2022-10-07 14:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2331066534 noemiceredas https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2331071159 In 1865  the director of the "nuthouse" Senavra" Cesare Castiglioni proposed to move some of the patients to Mombello.
The first patients were more calm, they were used to work in fields.
In the next years  Mombello became the biggest "nuthouse" in the region Lombardia.
Later the nuthouse was extended, in some periods it contained more than 4000 patients.

]]> 2022-10-07 14:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2331071159 noemiceredas https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2337120284 On the road from Milan to Como for more than a century there was a gate that signed the border between madness and normality. 
In the 1933, the era of fascism, in that year Giuseppe entered the nuthouse, he was there because he thought that they could have cured him from his decidous sickness.

]]> 2022-10-12 14:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2337120284 noemiceredas https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2347002657 The patients were used for many activities.
The most spread diseases were sexual trasmissble like syphilis, the Pellagra caused by a poor diet.
In the 1915 many war veterans, traumatised by the war,  were hospialized in this nuthouse, often they were treated with lobothomy that left them in a vegetative state, with electroshock or with insulin injections that caused a coma.
In the 1978 the Basaglia's Law lead to the closure of all the nuthouses.]]> 2022-10-19 13:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2347002657 noemiceredas https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2347015852 His days were marked by the rythms of the pavilion of the quiet, till he met Benito Mussolini, that claimed to be the Dux's son.
He was hospitalized with force in the pavillion of the agitated, He was worried that the nurses would poison him so he manifested signs of imbalance.
Giuseppe was his only friend and he gave him a reason to go on.]]> 2022-10-19 13:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/noemiceredas/1joinxf1lq0oevkc/wish/2347015852