Above: a colossal statue of Carlo Borromeo erected in Arona, Italy in 1697. Doctor in civil and ecclesiastical law, an aristocrat by birth on his father’s side—Count Gilbert of Arona—and also on his mother’s side, Margaret (the sister of Pope Pius IV), who descended from the Milanese branch of the famous Medici family, Charles Borromeo (1538–1584) can truly be considered, in every respect…
