One of Milan’s historic latteria bars, which made everyone who passed by feel at home.
At number 20 Via Fiori Chiari once stood the Latteria Pirovini, opened at the end of the 19th century by Pietro and Francesco Pirovini, supplier of excellent ice cream to the aristocracy of the area.
It soon became one of the meeting places of the Milanese cultural world and the bohemian Brera of that time, home to artists and writers.
A place with no gastronomic pretensions under whose eyes passed countless unpaid bills, flashes of genius, born and gone loves.
It was taken over by the Pirovini sisters, Cecilia, Elena and Lina (Pietro’s daughters). They are remembered as strict and very religious women, spinsters. They sang in the choir of the Church of San Marco and attended La Scala in Milan, united by their passion for opera.
The Latteria Pirovini has been closed for years now, but we can still find that flavor of home and of a sincere, genuine and not yet ‘modern’ place that everyone describes in the film ‘La vita agra’ where the director, in describing the Lombard capital of the 1960s, does not forget to also portray the fascinating world of Milanese artists, represented in more than one scene filmed in the dairy.
