Carlo Verri, patrizio, prefetto e possidente

Third son of the noble aristocratic Milanese family of Verri and brother of the most famous Peter and Alexander, Charles has been called by historians "cadet irregular". In fact, his life, both public and private, characterized by counter choices, it can be, like that of other contemporary characters to him, a sort of "litmus test" by which it is possible to deduce the viability of certain categories of social 'form of life' and understand the aristocratic sphere of influence, the ability to adapt to the times or even to promote the 'new' in terms of behavior and mentality. A story, that of Verri, symptomatic of the effort made by the Lombard nobility to adapt the conditions of social class and wealth inherited by the modern social-political system created in the Napoleonic era, and then continued as a model, throughout the nineteenth century.