Litta

Litta ( Italian: Litta ) - Milan aristocratic surname of the XVII-XIX centuries.

Litta
ital. Litta
Coat of arms description: Échiqueté d'or et de sable.
Title	counts
Place of origin	Milan
Nationality
Italy
Russian empire

They inherited the condition of the patricians of Arese and one of the branches of the Visconti clan and in memory of this took the triple surname Litta Visconti Arese ( Litta Visconti Arese ). She gave the Catholic Church several cardinals, including the diplomat Lorenzo Litt (1756-1820).

The Litta family belonged to one of the most beautiful palaces in Milan on the street Magento (heritage of the Arese clan) and the “ Madonna Litta ”, which is considered the work of Leonardo da Vinci .

The historian Pompeo Litta (1781-1852) owned in Lombardy such estates as the Villa Menafoglio near Varese and the Palazzo Brentano in Corbetta .

In Russia - the count family, represented by Vice Admiral Julia Pompeevich Litta (Giulio Renato), adopted in 1798 in Russian citizenship and included in the number of counts of the Russian Empire:

• Litta, Lorenzo (1756-1820) - Italian cardinal, Vatican diplomat and dignitary.
• Litta, Giulio Renato (1763-1839) - the brother of the previous one, a Russian statesman of Italian origin.
• Litta, Ekaterina Vasilievna ( Engelhardt as a girl, and Skavronskaya in her first marriage; 1761-1829) - his wife, niece of Prince Potemkin.
• Count Pompeo Litta (1781-1852) - Italian historian, under Napoleon I served in the French army. His main work, continued after his death by another person, was Famiglie celebri italiane (163 issue, from 1819 to 82), the history of 75 famous Italian noble families. During the revolution of 1848, he was Minister of War of the Provisional Government of Milan, then General of the National Guard of Milan.