Portrait of Francesco Piantanida

Francesco Piantanida, doctor of theology and canon of the Milanese church of Santa Maria Fulcorina, in his will dated September 23, 1834, where he named the Maggiore Hospital his heir, in addition to asking the Hospital "to accept his spontaneous, precise and determined will in relief and comfort of languishing humanity" he explicitly asks that his portrait be executed by an "excellent brush" and similar to that executed by Francesco Biondi for don Pietro Paolo Muttoni, another canon of the same church (this is not for vanity, as he wishes to point out , but "to recall [during the exhibition at the Festa del Perdono], the attention is increasingly focused and thus instill in others charity towards the Pious Place").