Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere
The Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere (short Istituto Lombardo ) was founded in Milan in 1838 as a scientific, literature and art academy and successor to an academy founded by Napoleon I in 1797. Today it is an Italian state science academy.
Napoleon founded it as the Academy of the Cisalpine Republic (Istituto Nazionale della Repubblica Cisalpina) based in Bologna. At first it should have a maximum of 60 members, the first half was appointed by Napoleon with Alessandro Volta as president. In 1810, at the request of the members of Napoleon, it was renamed Istituto Reale di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti , based in Milan in the Palazzo di Brera , where the headquarters are still today. There were offshoots in Bologna, Venice, Padua and Verona. The re-establishment took place in 1838, at the same time as the establishment of an academy in Venice. In 1859 the government of Piedmont took over the academy (it went from Habsburg to Italian ownership). In 1863 they also received recognition from the new Italian king ( Regio Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere , later e arte was added).
It is borne by the Ministry of Culture, but has an autonomous administration.
According to its statute, there is a mathematics and natural sciences department with five sections (mathematics, physics and chemistry, engineering and architecture, natural sciences, medicine) with 124 permanent members, 60 non-permanent and 40 foreign members, and a moral science department with three sections (philology and linguistics, history and philosophy, political science and economics) with 120 permanent members, 60 non-permanent and 44 foreign members.
The original sections for visual arts and literature no longer exist.
The library and administration are also in the Palazzo Landriani.