Social ascent and religious life: the da Perego family and the Milanese monastery of S. Maria del Lentasio in the 13th century

Abstract

In the wake of prosopographical research, the essay focuses on the case of de Perego family, native of the country round Como, in the XIIIth century. The matter is the possible correlation between the election of Leone de Perego as archibishop of the church of Milan, as well as the transference to town of various relatives of his and the events happened at the St. Mary of Lentasio nunnery.