St. Gotthard Church in Corte

This guide to St. Gotthard Church in Corte in Milan opens with Azzone Visconti, the young ruler of Milan in the early thirteen thirties, whose joints and hands were being ravaged by gout even as he commanded one of Europe's richest cities. It follows his decision to build this palace chapel, hiring the architect Francesco Pecorari, first dedicating it to the Virgin Mary before rededicating it to Saint Gotthard, a German bishop venerated as a healer of gout. Listen for the story behind the pink terracotta bell tower rising above the entrance.