A Life Shaped by Tradition Born in 1795 in Mediglia, Giuseppe Sogni came from a family of tenant farmers. His early years were marked by the steady, hardworking life of his parents, Giovanni and Candida. In 1804, the family moved to Milan, a change that would eventually lead him away from the military path his father had envisioned. After attending a military school in Pavia, Sogni chose to follow a different calling, enrolling at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in 1815. At the Brera, he found himself caught between two disciplines. He studied sculpture under Camillo Pacetti, and thoug…