Portrait of Giuseppe Chierichetti

Giuseppe Chierichetti does not directly benefit the Maggiore Hospital. It is the daughter Luigia who in the will allocates 250,000 lire to the hospital in memory of her father Giuseppe and her mother Giuseppina Cova of which she also sends the "family" portraits executed by Giuseppe Bertini (this in 1880). Luigia who is orphaned at the age of ten of her mother (daughter of Antonio Cova, owner of the famous Milanese coffee-pastry shop), receives an excellent education and learns different foreign languages; friend of writers and artists, she turned a good painter with participation in exhibitions, she also collaborates with the Ambrosian Library in document filing and consultancy for the acquisition of works of art. During the First World War she is a volunteer Red Cross nurse. The donation to the Hospital is a legacy that she planned within the complete destination of her patrimony in charity in favor of the Pio Istituto dei Figli della Provvidenza (Pious Institute of the Sons of Providence).