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Giuseppe Ripamonti
1577–1643
A Milanese priest and historian, he became one of the key chroniclers of seventeenth-century Milan, writing vivid Latin accounts of the city, its church, and the devastating plague of 1630. His work still matters because it preserves the texture of civic and religious life during a turbulent era.
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La peste di Milano del 1630
by Giuseppe Ripamonti
About the author
Born in the Milan area in 1573 and ordained a Catholic priest in 1605, Giuseppe Ripamonti built his career around scholarship, teaching, and historical writing. He worked in Milanese intellectual circles linked to the Ambrosian Library and to Cardinal Federico Borromeo, who supported his work as a historian.
Ripamonti is best known for his Latin histories of Milan and the Milanese church, as well as for his account of the plague that struck Milan in 1630. His writing combines close attention to events with the broad view of someone trying to record the moral, religious, and political life of his city.
He died in 1643, but his books remained important sources for later historians and readers interested in early modern Lombardy. Today he is remembered less as a literary celebrity than as a careful witness to one of the most dramatic periods in Milan's history.