mappamuseo

Green Room

This room, adjacent to the matrimonial bedroom, was Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi’s bedroom. As other aristocratic gentlemen of his day, Giuseppe had his own private bedroom. On the tables, some liturgical objects are displayed, such as fifteenth and sixteenth century monstrances and reliquaries, underscoring the refined and precious atmosphere of this bedroom.

Latin mottos

NON CENSUS NEC CLARUM NOMEN AVORUM SED PROBITAS MAGNOS INGENIUMQUE FACIT

Neither wealth nor the illustrious name of ancestors, but honesty and ingenuity make one great

(Ovid, Letters from Pontus, I, 9, vv.39-40)

IN THE FRIEZE

BRAMO ASSAI POCO SPERO E NULLA CHIEDO

I yearn a lot, I hope little, I ask nothing

(The phrase, in the third person singular, appears in Canto 2, verse 16 of Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, 1581, but who was the first to adopt it in the first person singular, and where the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers might have seen it – or who saw it in their house – remains to be seen)

ON THE MANTELPIECE OF THE FIREPLACE, IN ITALIAN

Audio guide codes

12 - Green Room

121 - St. Francis and St. Mary Magdalene