Fotografia ritoccata
Data sheet
Name: Leon David Levi Aedicule
Location: field 2, no. 8
Author: Ercole Balossi Merlo (architect)
Execution date: 1878
It is the highest aedicule in the cemetery, built in neo-Gothic style with pointed arches, cusps and pinnacles in 1878 by the architect Ercole Balossi Merlo (1842-1922) for the wealthy banker Leon David Levi, born in Mantua in 1819 and deceased in Milan childless in 1882, founder of the ceramic firm Richard and of the Banca Commercio e Industria along with other industrialists. The aedicule has been cordoned off for years because it is unsafe and the remains of Leon David, his wife, brother and father have been transferred to the ossuary B 79-84 in the cemetery. An inscription on the side recalls the displacement of the bones of Leon David Levi’s relatives from Mantua.
