Aldo Andreani was a talented and successful architect and sculptor. In the centre of Milan many civic buildings bear the visible sign of his intervention. It is worth mentioning the Palazzo in Via Serbelloni, Casa Zanoletti, Palazzo Fidia and Villa Rasin. It was however in Mantua that he created his masterpiece, what is today the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce, located between Via Calvi and Via Spagnoli, a few metres from the city hall. Here he managed to create an oriental atmosphere, with traits that evoke the Babylonian and Egyptian eras. The work, completed in 1914, cannot be defined as belonging to the canon of liberty style, rather, it can be likened to some examples of Viennese architecture. The image shows a plan of the complex of the Palazzo della Ragione and the Podestà.