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The Arts
A young Michelangelo Merisi, now better known by the name of his Lombard home
town Caravaggio, got noticed in Milan with his singular style of extreme realism in
1584, while art maverick and true Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci hung around
long enough to paint The Last Supper and install a system of locks and levees for the
city's canals. Art and architecture in Milan have always been about innovation.
Medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer was linked with Milan's Visconti dukes through his patron,
Lionel, Duke of Clarence, who married Violante Visconti in 1368. Chaucer mentions Bernabò Visconti
('God of delit and scourge of Lumbardye') in the exempla of tyrants in the Monk's Tale, while Pavia provides
the setting for The Merchant's Tale.
 
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