G. Nicodemi Biography
Giorgio Nicodemi (1891 - 1967) Graduated in literature from the Scientific-Literary Academy of Milan in 1915 and graduated in paleography and archives, during the First World War he was captain of the Engineers and collaborated with Ojetti on the protection of works of art in the areas of combat. It was in Busto that he early published a study dedicated to the painter Daniele Crespi in 1914, he published studies on Biagio Bellotti collected in the volumes Il canonico Biagio Bellotti of 1914 and Seventeen drawings of Biagio Bellotti of 1933. Around 1925 he wrote Il Bambaia, dedicated to Agostino Busts and Memoirs. He also dealt with the painter Gaudenzio Ferrari, who had created the Polyptych of the Assumption for the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Piazza in Busto Arsizio, in Gaudenzio Ferrari's polyptych in S. Maria Maria di Piazza in Busto Arsizio, published in 1943. From 1919 he directed the Pinacoteca of Brescia and from 1923 the Directorate of the cultural institutes of the Municipality of Brescia in which in that year the responsibility for the civic museums and the Queriniana Library was brought together. He joined the Fascist Party in 1922. From 1 June 1928 he was appointed chief superintendent of the Civic Institutes of History and Art of Milan, on which the Civic Library also depended. He was also a freelance lecturer and professor of art history at the Catholic University of Milan, author of numerous publications, organizer of exhibitions and collaborator of newspapers and magazines ("Emporium", "Dedalo", "Rivista d'arte", etc. .). Purged after the Liberation, he had to leave the Municipality of Milan but from 1946, having obtained the revocation of his suspension from teaching, he was still a lecturer at the Catholic University. In the 1950s he returned to direct the civic museums and the Queriniana library in Brescia. In 1961 he sold a collection of material relating to the Renaissance and Baroque to the UCLA Library and in 1963 a large collection of history and art books to the Library of the Fabbrica del Duomo of Milan; after his death, the remainder of his library and papers were apparently acquired by the University of California, through Carlo Pedretti.
