On the North side of the Cathedral there is this young boy with a powerful, curly physique, looking towards the West, while with his right hand he gestures as if he were talking to someone, but he seems to be distracted, looking elsewhere. The Boreas blows over him, the icy wind that suddenly descends on the valleys in winter, generating sudden drops in temperature. According to the ancient navigators, Boreas would be the north wind, born from the union of the aurora and the titan of the stars.  Boreas is also remembered as the father of two sailors who participated in the Argonauts’ expedition. Today this wind is also called Tramontana and when sailors lose their orientation they say they “lose the Tramontana”, that icy breath that splits faces and indicates the North, the pivot for every direction, especially that of home.

The tales of the statue in Dome’s building site:

To date, there is still no news relating to the events surrounding the statue inside the Milan Cathedral construction site. However, the Archive of the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo is continuing to conduct numerous research, thanks to which it has managed to place the creation of this statue in the first quarter of the 19th century, therefore in the first decades of the 19th century. Indeed, the style and the creation of the details would seem to be in line with the style that the various workers adopted in that period to create their artistic works.