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Name: Monument for the Finzi family*
Location: field 1, no. 7
Author: Rizzardo Galli (sculptor)
Construction date: 1889
The banker Comm. Vittorio Finzi had a rock-shaped tomb built for his wife Rosa Castelfranco who died at the age of 34 in 1889. The tomb was surmounted by a bronze statue representing the vision of the prophet Ezekiel with his arms outstretched towards the sky. The base is in Brembate ceppo. The sculptor Rizzardo Galli (Milan 1836- Milan 1914), son and pupil of Antonio Galli, participated in several exhibitions including that of Brera, Dubli (with the marble group Fate la carità), Philadelphia, Naples and in the Exhibition of Rome in 1883.
Vittorio, Rosa and his daughter Ida are buried in the tomb. Another daughter Irma Cantoni was killed by the Nazis in Arona in the massacre of Lake Maggiore with her son Vittorio Cantoni on September 15, 1943.
