Data sheet
Name: Monument for Ettore Levis
Location: field 3, no. 8-9
Author: Giannino Castiglioni (sculptor)
Construction date: 1913
Ettore Levis, born in Milan in 1893 to Icilio Levis and Eugenia Muggia, student in engineering at the Politecnico di Milano and member of CAI (Italian Alpine Club), died on February 1, 1913 during a climb in the Valmalenco mountains. On January 6, 1913 for the first time Levis and Grisi had climbed the Scaramellini peak of the Suretta group near the Spluga pass and the 2,690 m high Punta Levis in the same group is named after him. After his death, his parents established the Levis Foundation which distributes a scholarship every year for a student of engineering from the University of Pavia and the Politecnico di Milano. The Levis family came from Reggio Emilia and the Muggia family from Fiorenzuola and had arrived in Milan around 1860.
The sculptor Giannino Castiglioni (1884-1871) sculpted Monte Disgrazia on a Carrara marble slab with a flock in the foreground grazing near a lake, taking up a theme dear to the painters of the epoch, Segantini and Longoni. At the base there is the inscription “student of engineering that the misfortune struck in the joy of a magnificent feat”. The CAI affixed a plaque in 1923 on the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation in memory of the associates who died in the mountains.
