Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana

The Indigenous American collection of the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana consists of artifacts of extraordinary value, originating from early modern collections. Standing out among them is a sixteenth‑century Tupinambá feather cloak, an object of outstanding international importance, which comes from the seventeenth‑century collection of Manfredo Settala, the source also of two cocos chocolateros. In addition, the collection includes several seventeenth‑century buccheri from Tonalá (Mexico), as well as a group of Peruvian ceramics from the nineteenth‑century collection of Alessandro Litta Modignani.