Lokacin da muke magana akan Milan da sanannun mutane, Babu shakka farkon abin da zai fara tunani shine babban Leonardo da Vinci, wanda ya rayu kuma ya inganta yawancin ayyukansa a wannan garin, amma Milan ya ga haihuwar ko kuma ta yi maraba da ita kamar yara masu shahararrun haruffa, waɗanda gadonsu ya wuce lokaci.
Daya daga cikinsu shine Giuseppe Verdi, Shahararren mawaki na lokacin Romantic, wanda ake daukar opera da shi waƙoƙi marasa mutuwa, wanda ya isa Milan yana da ƙuruciya, inda ya gano sha'awar sa ga kiɗan da malamin sa na farko Pietro Baistrocchi ya tallafawa. Kodayake na ɗan wani lokaci yana zaune a wani gari a cikin Parma, inda ya yi aiki a matsayin mawaƙin hukuma na majalisar birni da kuma darakta na ƙungiyar mawaƙa
Amma Verdi, wanda yayi mafarkin zama mai kida da kirkirar opera, ya koma Milan inda ya fara aikinsa mara mutuwa. Fim dinsa na farko shine Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio, wanda aka fara gabatar dashi a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na La Scala a cikin MilanAmma har zuwa wasansa na uku, opera Nabuco a cikin 1842, ba a san aikinsa a ko'ina ba.
Lokacin da ya kai ga shahara kuma tuni ya balaga, akwai wani yunƙuri na sauya sunan zuwa sanannen Masarautar Milan, wanda Verdi ya yi ƙoƙarin shiga ba tare da nasara ba a lokacin samartakarsa, ya canza shi da sunansa, wanda shahararren mawaƙin ya amsa: "Idan ba ka ƙaunace ni ba tun kana saurayi, me ya sa kake ƙaunata lokacin da kake tsufa." Duk da cewa masu daraja Makarantar waƙa ta Milan tana ɗauke da sunansa.
Giuseppe Verdi ya mutu a cikin Grand Hotel da Milan, a Janairu 27, 1901 kuma an binne shi a cikin Gidan Mawaka, wurin da ya taimaka ƙirƙirar shi.
Kiɗa, al'ada y wasan kwaikwayo su ma wani bangare ne na menene Milan tayi wa wadanda suka ziyarce ta. Karshen mako, kwanciyar hankali, hutu, duk wani uzuri yana aiki kar a rasa shi.