First edition, very rare, of the most important work by Paolo Morigi or Morigia. A hymn to the industriousness and efficiency of the Milan "system".
It is a review of all the most eminent figures of the sciences, letters, arts, religion, nobility, arms, that meet in the history of Milan. 


"Towards the end of the century [ed. the XVI] the local Milanese historian P. Paolo Morigia, of the order of Gesuati, who was also a prolific writer [...] published a panorama of his homeland, the Nobility of Milan (1595, new edition of Borsieri 1619, with a small volume of additions). Divided into six books, it contains everything that deserves to be known about the flourishing city that has such an eminent position in Italy today.The fifth book, dedicated exclusively to artists and the like, has considerable value for us especially for news on contemporaries since Milan is a of the few large Italian cities that remained inactive even in the following two centuries when even much smaller localities produced accurate biographies of their or artists. Characteristic is the place given to industrial art, which since then flourished in that city always dedicated to industry; illuminators, gunsmiths, cabinet makers, embroiderers, blacksmiths and goldsmiths, but above all the very ingenious carvers of fine stones and crystal are widely considered; these chapters have not only local importance, due to the part that many of them, especially the last ones (Jacopo da Trezzo, the Miseroni, etc.) played in the North, at the imperial court of Rudolf II. In Borsieri's supplement the last two chapters are especially important, dealing with the rich "private galleries" of Milan [...], from the most famous one by Leone Leoni onwards, and also containing a brief description of the best public paintings and sculptures in Milan ”. (Julius von Schlosser, Artistic literature, p.366).
Cicognara,4244 - Lozzi,I,2652 - Argelati,II, p. I, 966 and Predari, p. 165 list the work under the title "La Nobiltà dei Signori LX del Consiglio di Milano, libri VI" - Cat. Hoepli,793.