This was built on the lands of Guercio da Baggio, who may have been consul between 1150 and 1188, which shortly before 1178 passed into the hands of the order.

[2]: 251 After the suppression of the Humiliati by Pius V on 7 February, 1571, the monastery became – at the request of Carlo Borromeo and with the approval of Gregory XIII – a Jesuit college.

[3] To house it, Palazzo Brera was built to the north of the church, to designs of Francesco Maria Richini, from about 1615.

[2]: 251  Following the suppression of the Jesuits by Clement XIV on 21 July 1773, the palace passed to the government, at that time that of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty.

[2]: 252 Parts of the façade, including the ogival windows and some of the facing of grey and white marble, were incorporated by Luigi Canonica in the Cascina San Fedele [it], in the park of the villa of the viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais, Napoleon's nephew.