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 In 1899, on the one -hundredth anniversary of her death, a cornerstone was placed in the facade of the Luogo Pio with a dedication written by Professor de March...

To thank MGA for the Instituzioni, her Empress, the Grand Duchess of Austria, awarded her a lead crystal box adorned with diamonds and also a ring.

Pope Benedict XIV is said to have given her a gold medal and a gold wreath adorned with precious stones. 

 In 1899, the one hundredth celebration committee in Milan invested 600 lire in government bonds for the purpose of conferring a prize on a poor student from the "Normal School Gaetana Agnesi" who excelled in scholarship.

A similar annual prize was given in honor of Agnesi by the Duchess D'Eril.

 
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MARIA GAETANA AGNESI
TESORO DI DOTTRINA
FIOR CANDIDISSIMO DI VIRTÙ
CHIARA IN TUTTA EUROPA
NELLE SEVERE SCIENZE DEL CALCOLO
QUI
DOVE RIPUDIATI GLI AGI E GLI ONORI DEL MONDO
VISSE XV ANNI COI POVERI DI CRISTO
BEATA SINO ALL'ULTIMO SUO GIORNO
NE` GAUDI DELLA CARITÀ
QUESTA MEMORIA
ERGEVA UN CONCITTADINO
L'ANNO MDCCCXXXIII
To Maria Gaetana Agnesi,
Treasure of knowledge,
Most pure flower of virtue
Well known all over Europe
In the serious sciences of computation
Here
where, having repudiated the comforts and honors of the world she lived XV years with the poor of Jesus,
happy till her last day
for the joys of charity
this memorial
a fellow-citizen erected in the year 1833.

In 1833, Lorenzo Prinetti, an honorary director of the Pio Albergo Trivulzio for 12 years and also a lawyer, recognized MGA by erecting at his own expense a small monument on the stairway of the hospice.  Later this small monument was adorned with a marble bust.
The marker on her tomb reads:
MARIA GAETANA AGNESI:
Pietate, Doctrina, 
Beneficentia Insignia
H. S. E.  Dec. An. MDCCXCIX
V. I. D.  I AN.  Aetat LXXXI

Her body was buried in a common grave with fifteen other elderly persons.This was not uncommon at that time.  The cemetery is on the outside of the Roman gate in the city walls of Milan.  No monument was added at this tomb.
H. S. E.
is Latin for

hic sepultus est
or
hic situs est,

"Here Lies Buried."