[1] The original palace dates back to 1482 when Ludovico il Moro founded the Monte di Pietà of Milan in the then contrada dei Tre Monasteri.

[2] Later, of these three monasteries of the toponym, one was incorporated into the remodelling of the palace by the court architect Giuseppe Piermarini in 1782, namely the convent of Santa Chiara, of which a hall with fragments of frescoes[1] remains at the rear of the palace.

The façade, rather simple in the style of early Milanese neoclassicism, has a projecting body in the centre, decorated by a portal bordered by columns supporting the first floor balcony.

The piano nobile is punctuated by pilasters of Ionic order.

[3] Media related to Monte di Pietà (Milan) at Wikimedia Commons