 The hospital was named after San Matteo in September 1449, as it was built where the Benedictine monastery of San Matteo was located .It was also called the Pietà hospital to underline that the pietas, intended as love of neighbor, must be the guiding principle of the activity carried out within it.The hospital emblem used at the time, which depicted the rising of Christ from the dead half-way up from the sarcophagus, had been used for centuries and is still being used today.