House of Borromeo
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The House of Borromeo is an Italian noble family. They started as merchants in San Miniato around 1300 and became bankers in Milan after 1370. Vitaliano de' Vitaliani, who acquired the name of Borrome
The Borromeo Palace at Milan
Lake Maggiore, with the Borromean Islands, the majority still owned by the family, although now open to the public.
Castle Rocca di Angera
Palace on Isola Bella
Borromean rings
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In mathematics, the Borromean rings are three simple closed curves in three-dimensional space that are topologically linked and cannot be separated from each other, but that break apart into two unkno
House of Borromeo
…of Milan, Carlo (1538–1584), who was canonized by Pope Paul V in 1610, and Federico (1564–1631), who founded the Ambrosian Library. The figure of the Borromean rings, which forms part of the family's coat of arms, is well known in the diverse fields of topology, psychoanalysis, and theology. Around 1300, this was…
A monkey's fist knot