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| Roccabianca: art and history |
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Under
the rule of Pier Maria Rossi, half-way through the XV century,
the village which is now Roccabianca was born. Between 1450
and 1465, the fortress was built on the design of Giacomo dal
Miglio and Giacomo Lanzo, perhaps with the design assistance
of Pier Maria himself. In the sixteenth century, the feud of
Roccabianca became the property of the Pallavicino and Rangoni
families, and in 1831 it was integrated into the ducal possessions
of Maria Luigia. The inside of the fortress, an imposing structure
with two bastions and a further central tower, preserves lacunar
ceilings from the fifteenth century, and the Griselda Room with
the modern reproduction of the important cycle of frescoes inspired
by the hundredth story of the Decameron of Boccaccio and the
astrological cycle of Pier Maria Rossi. The original frescoes,
attributed to Niccolò da Varallo, were removed in 1896
and today are preserved at the Castello Sforzesco of Milan.
The fortress, property of the Scaltriti family, is part of the
circuit of "Castles of the Duchy".
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