Lippo Memmi
Among his many works: an oil canvas of "Una passeggiata"; "Petrarch induces the painter Lippo Memmi to secretly paint a portrait of Laura"; "Sappho meditates Suicide"; "Don Abbondio and the cardinal Borromeo", an episode from "I promessi sposi"; "Victim of Primogeniture", also called "Victim of the Cloister" because it depicts a young nun in her death bed, dying due to the cloistered life imposed by her family; "The sack and massacre of Muslims in a house in Bulgaria"; and "The island of Favignana". Among his works were: "Un novelliere fiorentino", and genre paintings, acquired by the Ottoman consul resident in Genoa; four paintings representing scenes from the novel I Promessi Sposi of Manzoni, including: "Don Abbondio che accompagna l ' Innominato" ; "Padre Cristoforo in casa di Agnese"; "Lucia in the convent of Monza"; "Renzo e L'Azzeccagarbugli". These paintings he completed by commission for the banker D. Parodi di Genoa. His painting of "Bordello", won a prize established by Prince Oddone in Genoa. He painted the "Death of Anita Garibaldi". At the Mostra Milanese, he displayed the genre paintings: "Politica in convento"., "L' organetto del villaggio"; "In tempo... triste pagina del secolo XIX"; "Per amore"; "Chiostro"; and "Un bel mattino a Pegli".