Introduction / Angelo Bianchi and Annamaria Cascetta -- Napoleon: rights, liberty and consensus between the legacy of the Enlightenment and the culture of Romanticism / Antonio Trampus -- Napoleonic Milan: the military city (1800-1814) / Emanuele Pagano -- Religious practices and social order in Milan in the Napoleonic age / Gianvittorio Signorotto -- Religious policy and the building of political support in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy / Riccardo Benzoni -- Between Italy and France. The Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense: History of the institute under the Napoleonic regime / Luca Montagner -- “Combining the dignity of the monument with public utility and beauty”: monuments to Napoleon in Milan between Republic and Empire / Giovanna D’Amia -- Images of royalty at the scene of the coronation / Roberta Carpani -- The Accademia dei Filodrammatici of Milan and the idea of civil theatre / Claudio Bernardi -- The faces of Napoleon in the dramaturgy performed in Milan: three examples / Laura Peja -- Napoleon and Caesar as a theatrical character / Annamaria Cascetta -- Public Festivals in Napoleon’s Milan: mirror of the bourgeoisie and ways to create support / Greta Salvi -- Performative aspects of external worship in the Napoleonic age in Lombardy (1796-1814) / Arianna Frattali – COMPARISONS. Brescia laboratory of reform for a patriotic and civic theatre / Carla M. Bino – Tables -- NAPOLEON AT THE AMBROSIANA: PATHS OF REPRESENTATION. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan, 5 October 2021 – 4 May 2022) / curated by Francesca Barbieri and Alessandra Mignatti -- Napoleon at the Ambrosiana: an overview of the career of Gaspare Galliari / Francesca Barbieri -- Napoleon at the Ambrosiana: action and representation / Alessandra Mignatti -- List of materials exhibited / Francesca Barbieri and Alessandra Mignatti -- Iconographic insert / curated by Francesca Barbieri and Alessandra Mignatti