MONUMENT IN CERTOSA DI PAVIA TO GALEAZZO VISCONTi, FOUNDER OE THE MAJESTIC 

 MILAN CATHEDRAL AND ALSO OE THE CERTOSA CATHEDRAL 



"According to local story, Catharina, wife of Gian Galeazzo, gave, when dying, a park 

 adjoining the ducal palace at Pavia, a part of her own dowry, for the perpetual use of twelve 

 Carthusian monks. The park comprised some 13 miles in extent, an unimproved, boggy 

 forest, full of game, her husband's hunting ground. In sorrow and devotion he confirmed 

 the gift and expanded it until 20 square miles of territory between Milan and Pavia were 

 tributary to the monastery for its support, for its construction or its embellishment" (see 

 text, page 551). 



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