Palatine School Palace

The Palatine School Palace is located in the medieval Mercanti Market Square in Milan. It was built in the Baroque style in 1645 on the site of another building burned down during a fire.

Four arches, framed by paired columns of Tuscan marble, form access to the first floor porch. Above the arches in the niches of the second floor there are 2 statues by the medieval sculptor Giovanni Pietro Lasagna: a statue of St. Augustine, who taught rhetoric at this school, and the ancient Roman poet Ausonius, who already in the IV century AD sang the city of Mediolanum Milan.

The Palatine schools in Italy have always been considered centers of high culture. Here they studied law, medicine, eloquence, mathematics under the guidance of famous teachers of that time. The Milan school taught eloquence - Giuseppe Parini, philosophy - Cesare Beccaria, law - Giovanni Romanosi, mathematics, physics and chemistry - Marcelio Landriani, and others.