Located in
Saint Fedele Square in the centre of the city, near the
Palazzo Marino, the
Teatro alla Scala and the
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the church was commissioned by
Charles Borromeo from
Pellegrino Tibaldi (1559). Outside of the church, in
Piazza San Fedele, is a bronze statue (1883) in memory of the writer
Alessandro Manzoni, who lived nearby, and who died from a head injury he received after a fall while exiting mass at San Fedele on 6 January 1873. The interior is on a single nave, with tall columns in granite. The presbytery was extended in the 17th century by
Francesco Maria Richino, who also designed the sacristy. The façade was completed by Pietro Pestagalli from Tibaldi's designs in 1835. It features a group of
Gaetano Matteo Monti's statues representing the Assumption. The interior is decorated with artworks that include a
Pietà by
Simone Peterzano, a
St. Ignatius by
Giovanni Battista Crespi (il Cerano) a
Transfiguration by Bernardino Campi, and a Sacred Heart by
Lucio Fontana. A
Madonna of the Snake by
Ambrogio Figino, once found in the church, is now in the church of Sant'Antonio Abate of the city. ==Museo San Fedele==