Monumento a Giovanni Battista Monteggia

Giovanni Battista Monteggia was born in Laveno, in the Monteggia hamlet where the house still exists, on August 8, 1762, to Gian Antonio and Marianna Vegezzi. There are reports of two brothers, one oblate parish priest in Carbonate, the other doctor. The father took care of waters and roads; he started his son, who had studied in Pallanza, as a surgeon, making him admitted to the surgery school of the Maggiore hospital in Milan, where Monteggia lived from September 1779. The Polyclinic of Milan, as a gesture of solemn respect for the Monteggia dedicated the Surgery Pavilion to him in 1929. The Carrara marble bust is the work of Camillo Pacetti, an authoritative spokesperson for Antonio Canova's hold in early 19th century Milan, donated by his daughter Marquise Antonietta Monteggia Guerrieri Gonzaga. The original design of the monument was designed by architect architect Pompeo Azari of Pallanza and then passed on to Costantino Cietti di Pallanza. The monument was built in September 1871, master builder Luigi Degiovannini of Pallanza, entrusted to Emanuele Ferrari di Laveno with Filippo Zavattari and Marco Besozzi di Mombello, Paolo Rodari, Demetrio Marzoni and Battista Mazzarda. The base is in Montorfano granite (white miaròlo) which supports a newsstand in Viggiù stone, a variety with medium hazelnut grain. The frame is in dark green Oira stone with lighter veins. The central plaque and the bust in white Carrara marble. The monument was inaugurated 8 October 1871 with the noble mayor Carlo Tinelli and the parish priest of Cerro Della Chiesa and many authorities. The tombstone of the Monteggia tomb, from the suppressed cemetery of Porta Romana in Milan, was brought to Laveno and in 1916 the parish priest of Laveno Alessandro Rossi placed it on the external wall of the sacristy of the church of. Maria in Ca 'Deserta, surrounded by other tombstones.