Hours of Gian Galeazzo Visconti
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The Hours of Giangaleazzo Visconti is a Roman-liturgy illuminated book of the Hours, produced in two volumes in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

 for Gian Galeazzo Visconti
Gian Galeazzo Visconti
Gian Galeazzo Visconti , son of Galeazzo II Visconti and Bianca of Savoy, was the first Duke of Milan and ruled the late-medieval city just before the dawn of the Renaissance...

. It was begun in 1388 by Giovannino de' Grassi and completed around 1428 by Belbello da Pavia during the reign of Gian's son Filippo Maria Visconti
Filippo Maria Visconti
Filippo Maria Visconti was ruler of Milan from 1412 to 1447.-Biography:Filippo Maria Visconti, who had become nominal ruler of Pavia in 1402, succeeded his assassinated brother Gian Maria Visconti as Duke of Milan in 1412. They were the sons of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Gian Maria's predecessor, by...

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It is now in the Biblioteca Nazionale
Biblioteca Nazionale
Biblioteca Nazionale may refer to one of four national libraries in Italy:*Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze in Florence*Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Roma in Rome*Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III in Naples...

in Florence.
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