Built in the medieval period nearby the church of Santa Maria delle Bocche, in 1471 the palace passed from the notary public Rinaldo Mezzaprile do the Ariosto family, along with the adjoining building (the Magna Domus of the distinguished family), to which is linked by a bridge in vicolo del Granchio. In 1481 the building passed to the canon Brunoro Ariosto: the Christological monogram placed in the façade dates probably back to this period, in memory of the preaching of Bernardino da Siena in Ferrara, who adopted it as his emblem. The marble portal with archivolt and key bracket can be dated back to the sixteenth century
While Brunoro was canon in Rovigo, his brother Nicolò established himself in the palace, of whom the world-famous Ludovico was born, at the time ten years-old. In this building, the author-to be of the Orlando Furioso studied with his tutor, Domenico Catabena from Argenta, and in all likelihood he wrote his first poems and few premature theatrical texts. When his father died, the great poet left Ferrara in order to go to Canossa as castellan of the Fortress, although he returned to live inthese rooms several times, until when he bought the house in the quarter of Mirasole. In the house situated in via Del Giuoco del Pallone 31, of which he later became the only owner, Ludovico wrote long passages of the first draft of the Orlando Furioso, published in 1516.
After the Ariostos, the palace passed to the noble family Canani and then to the Federicis, Righettis, Agnolettis, until it was bought by the landscape painter and art critic Ferdinando Ughi in the nineteenth century. He then sold it to the painter Oreste Buzzi in 1913, who had just came back from Brazil with considerable financial resources, after having also worked for the President of the Republic. Upon Buzzi’s death, in 1943, the son Ugo gave the house to the Cavallinis, parents of Bruno (Eleonora Cavallini’s father), Rina and Romana (mother of Mario, Giovanni, Bruno and Anna Verdi ). Rina Cavallini got married to Giuseppe Sgarbi and gave birth to Vittorio and Elisabetta Sgarbi.
Of Renaissance taste is the front, exquisitely ornamental in the tradition of the Ferrara “terracotta.” The ancient portico on the ground floor was tamponed during the sixteenth century, while the façade was raised after Buzzi bought it according to his own plan, and he intelligently tried to keep the stylistic unity with the piano nobile and decorated it personally with fine tempera colours of late Art Nouveau and Art Deco taste, both on the ceilings and on the walls. At the time when Oreste Buzzi bought the house, there was a big room on the ground floor (beck then a wood and carbon shop) where, according to the tradition, Ludovico Ariosto staged his plays in front of his family, as a preview.
Casa Uno - Elisabetta
Upper Floor - 145 square meters
View of the garden and medieval side of Vicolo del Granchio
Rooms
Wide living room and lounge
Kitchen-diner
2 Double bedrooms
1 Single bedrooms
2 bathrooms
Air conditioner
Two Televisions
Casa Due - Vittorio
Middle Floor - 145 square meters
View of the garden and medieval side of Vicolo del Granchio
Rooms
Wide living room and lounge
Kitchen-diner
Study
2 Double bedrooms
1 bathroom
Air conditioner
Two Televisions
Casa Tre - Caterina
First Floor - 70 square meters
View of the inside gardens and medieval side of the Vicolo del Granchio
Rooms
Living room and lounge
1 Double bedroom
Small studio
Kitchen
1 bathroom
Air conditioner
Two Televisions
House Four – Giuseppe
First floor – 70 sm
Sight on internal gardens and terrace
Rooms
Living room and dining room
Kitchen
Two double bedrooms
One bathroom
Air conditioner
Two Televisions
Il Corriere della Sera
January, 13th, 2011
Il Resto del Carlino
January 14th, 2011
Il Sole 24 Ore
January 14th, 2011
La Stampa
January 14th, 2011
La Nuova Ferrara
January 14th, 2011
La Nuova Ferrara
January 16th, 2011
Il Giornale
January 16th, 2011
Corriere di Bologna
16 gennaio 2011
QN - Quotidiano Nazionale
January 16th, 2011
Oggi
Giornale di Brescia
January 20th, 2011
Brescia Oggi
January 20th, 2011
Il Sole 24 Ore - Nòva 24
January 27th, 2011
Il Secolo XIX
February 4th, 2011
L'Unità
February 5th, 2011
La Nuova Ferrara
February 7th, 2011
Il Mondo
February 11th, 2011
Corriere della Sera
February 16th, 2011
La Nuova Ferrara
February 17th, 2011
Ville e Giardini
march 2011
Partiamo
april 2011
Il Giornale dell'Arte
Venerdì di Repubblica
january 2012
Panorama Travel
january 2012
Apartment Elisabetta
from 160 Euros for one/two people to 300 Euros for five people (December 20 to January 9: 250 Euros); two double rooms
and one single room; two bathrooms; in the apartment there is a
great fresco
portraying a wood and the art of writing
in the main living-room, a
spacious kitchen with a dining area, a study and a long corridor with library.
Apartment Vittorio
from 135 Euros for one/two people to 250 Euros for four people (December 20 to January 9: 210 Euros); one spacious double
room with a view of the inner garden, one room with a three-quarter
bed, one bathroom; a spacious living-room with vintage paintings, a little study,
a roomy kitchen with a view of the Granchio medieval alley.
Apartment Caterina
95 Euros for one/two people (December 20 to January 9: 130 Euros); living-room with a view of the church of San Gregorio,
a study with seventeenth-century furniture, one bathroom.
Antonio Stagnoli's
frescos
in the bedroom and living-room.
Apartment Giuseppe
from 115 Euros for one/two people to 140 Euros for three people (December 20 to January 9: 165 Euros); first floor – 70
sm; sight on internal gardens and medieval terrace; rooms: living
room and dining room; kitchen; two double bedrooms; one bathroom
PETS
Pets are NOT allowed in the apartments.
TOURIST TAX
This tax has been introduced since June 1st 2013. It is mandatory for everyone who
finds accommodation in Ferrara (1,50 Euros for each, for a maximum of 5 days)
SERVICES
Bike Rental: 5 euros at day
Security-monitored Parking Lot: 5 euros at day
High Chair and cradles available on request
RESERVATIONS
Reservations for a stay less than a week long must be cancelled within 48 hours
before the arrival. Otherwise the fee for the whole period reserved will be charged.
Reservation for a stay longer than a week, up to a month, will be charged for the
whole period reserved even if the guests should interrupt their stay for any inconvenience.
CHECK-OUT
Check-out until 11.00 a.m. on the last day of stay.
DAMAGES POLICY
For every damage to apartments, furniture and objects due to negligence, the guests
will be considered responsible e shall refund the expenses related to repair.
DAILY CLEANING
During the staying will be charged 5 euro for daily cleaning
CONTACTS CASE CAVALLINI SGARBI
349 7221394
Guests of the Cavallini-Sgarbi Houses will enjoy advantageous discounts at:
Boutique Alberto Biani, Via della Luna 20, tel. 0532.205040
Concept-Store Sabai-Sabai, Piazza Sacrati 28, tel. 0532.243386
Restaurant Max, Piazza della Repubblica 16, tel. 0532.209309
The Historical Sgarbi Chemist’s in Ro Ferrarese is described as “by
old right”, because its foundation turns out to be prior to the regulations
of the Papal States promulgated on November, 15, 1837. However, the first reliable
news dates back to June 14, 1852, and appear in a private treaty with which Luigi
Mantovani and his brothers, Ippolito and Giovanni, relinquish the right to practice
the profession of chemist, based in the town of Zocca, to Alessandro Mari for “five
hundred metallic Roman scudos.” After the payment of the sum agreed upon,
on July 19 of the same year, the new owner asks the magistrates of the municipality
of Copparo the permission to move the shop and the laboratory to Ro. When Mari died,
on February 11, 1868, his wife, Felicissima Boccafolli, inherits the chemist’s
shop, and she makes doctor Stanislao Schiavo, to whom she will get married a few
years later, the manager of the shop. Upon the death of the woman, the business
is taken over by Francesco and Ilda Schiavo, Stamislao’s sons.
In 1940, chemist’s shop belongs to Alda Scutellari who, on March 2, hands
over its management to her husband, Alessandro Guglielmini. This is the person who,
thirteen years later, on November 4, 1953, will relinquish the right to practice
the profession of chemist to Giuseppe and Rina Sgarbi – parents of Vittorio
and Elisabetta Sgarbi, who will graduate in pharmacy, despite her literary interests
– along with “the furnishings, the shelves, the desks, the swingles,
and the other furniture” in the “shop belonging to the house facing
Piazza Umberto 1 in Ro Ferrarese”. Since that day, almost nothing has changed
in the Historical Sgarbi Chemist’s Shop, and the customer who crosses its
threshold and meets the doctors Elisa and Silvia Sgarbi founds himself magically
cast in the early twentieth century, surrounded by the winding contours of Art Nouveau
that transforms the shop windows, the counter, the mirrors and the chandelier in
veritable works of art.
Apartment Elisabetta: Tullio Pericoli
Tullio Pericoli, painter and illustrator, was born in Colli del Tronto, Marche,
and he lives in Milan since 1961. He exposes in many galleries, Italian and foreigner
museums, and publishes his illustrations on the most important international newspapers
and magazines. His recent activity as scene designer has leaded him to working with
Opernhaus of Zurigo, Teatro Studio and Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Among his books:
Ritratti arbitrari (1990), Attraverso il disegno (1991), Colti nel segno (1995),
Terre (2000), Nature (2002), I ritratti (2002) e Otto scrittori (2003).
Apartment Vittorio: Wainer Vaccari
Wainer Vaccari was born on 8th December 1949 in Modena, where he still lives and
works. He spends his childhood in the German Switzerland, where he enters in contact
with Nordic painting. After an exhibition on New Objectivity in Modena, he develops
a pictorial language tied with analytic realism of German movement. His refined
pictorial technique increases the mysterious and majestic atmosphere where his lunatic
characters are inserted. He begins to expose in 1970. Since nineties he increases
his exposing activity abroad, in 1994 a great exhibition, where two sculptures are
present too, is organized at Galleria Civica in Modena; in the same year another
exhibition is set up firstly in Denmark, then in Germany, Holland and Belgium.
Apartment Caterina: Antonio Stagnoli
Was born at Bagolino in the province of Brescia. He lived and worked between Brescia
and Bagolino, alternating the suggestive visions, which from his studio in Brescia
opened out onto the most ancient part of the city - to genuine images of native
mountains of Val di Sabbia. He was a painter of oils, incisions, pastels and china.
Besides Alfredo Bonomi, Piero Borghini, Gianfranco Bruno, Mario De Micheli, Chiara
Gatti, Enrico Ghezzi, Franco Loi, Franco Marcoaldi, Dario Micacchi, Domenico Montalto,
Mario Pancera, Elisabetta Sgarbi, Vittorio Sgarbi, Roberto Tassi and Lorenza Trucchi
all wrote about him.
Apartment Giuseppe: Vanni Cuoghi
Vanni Cuoghi was born in Genova, Italy, in 1966. His painting resambles characters
that seem to pop out of a fairy tale book that has lost its happy ending. He' s
been part of many major art shows around the world, among them Maestri di Brera
(2008) at the Liu-Haisu Museum in Shangai and the Biennale in St. Petersburg. In
2009, together with the Italian Newbrow group, his work is at the Praga Biennale
(by Giancarlo Politi and Ivan Quaroni). In New York he's part of the art show “Il
nuovo profilo italiano” at the Scope Art Fair. In 2011 he's in Venice, at
the 54 Biennale, in the Padiglione Italia by Vittorio Sgarbi.
Hallway between Apartment Giuseppe and Apartment Caterina: Angelo Davoli
Angelo Diavoli, 1960, Reggio Emilia
Recent exhibitions: Industrial Landscapes, 2001, Reggio Emilia Museums; in 2002
Hof&Huyser gallery, Amsterdam, and Annovi di Sassuolo, edited by A.Riva; Surrealism
of the Po Valley, Palazzo Gotico in Piacenza and Rivoltella Museum in Trieste, edited
by V. Sgarbi. Skyline, 2004, in San Mattia Church, Bologna, edited by M. Padreni;
Quadriennale in Rome, section by B. Buscaroli; winner of the Michetti Prize, 55th
edition. In 2007 LE COLLETTIVE by Vittorio Sgarbi at PAC in Milan and Painting in
the last 40 years at Palazzo Reale.
Davoli has edited scripts for Aterballetto: in 2007 for InCanto and in 2009 scenes
and videos for Certe notti, choreographies by M. Bigonzetti, music by Ligabue. In
2009 Cantiere Morini work in progress is exhibited at the First Gallery in Rome,
in 2010 at Palazzo Casotti, in Reggio Emilia, text by Marc Augé, and at the
Dieffe Gallery in Turin. In 2011 he is at the 54th Biennale in Venice at the Italian
Pavilion by V. Sgarbi.
Schifanoia Palace
Symbol of the Estensis’ power, it is an ideal equivalent of the Palace of
Reason. Here is still alive the memory of the most important painters from Ferrara,
and in particular that of Francesco dal Cossa. Of great relevance, the wonderful
portal of marble, with family symbols.
Museum of Cathedral Dome
You can’t think about this museum of Via San Romano, without the immediate
recognition of the organ’s shutters, with masterpieces by Cosmè Tura:
Saint George with the Princess, and above all The Annunciation: a jewel of prospective.
A perfect geometry that sees in the correspondence between the two figures, the
one of the Angel and the one of the Virgin, the exact correspondence between the
divine and the human.
Antonioni’s House
We could speak for hours, days, about Michelangelo Antonioni. Maybe it would be
sufficient to say that he has been the only Italian director to tell stories about
life silences and spaces. It wouldn’t be possible to think about a lot of
contemporary art and photography without a clear reference to him.
Biagio Rossetti’s House
Located in Via XX Settembre, previously named Via della Ghiara, the house of the
most famous architect of Ferrara, Biagio Rossetti, is now the first Italian Museum
of Architecture. The visitor will immediately notice the mullioned windows and terracotta
decorations, and will be impressed by the feeling of contemplation. A familiar house,
that evokes an idea of intimacy and grace.
Diamonds Palace
In Corso Ercole I d’Este you can also find this palace. Its famous external
ashlars in white marble, with pointed ends orientated in different directions to
better catch light, give to the building a Borges’s fortification appearance.
The most beautiful street of Europe: Corso Ercole I d’Este
A tangle of aristocratic houses and gardens in the most sumptuous street of Ferrara.
It is the poets’ street, where Giorgio Bassani used to go for a walk, plunging
in the memories of a lost past.
Jewish Cemetery
This is one of those places where History and Literature are intertwined, under
the aegis of an incredible nostalgia that spells anyone. The tombstone of Giorgio
Bassani, created by Arnaldo Pomodoro, stands there to remind us that thanks to The
Finzi Contini’s Garden there is a special aura surrounding this testimony
of the Past, giving it a life, a story: the story of all the men who have built
it, just like Bassani. It gives a shiny glow to the memory of the people from Ferrara
but also to those who have known it through the pages of the great Italian Narrative
of the Twentieth Century.
The Certosa (Catholic Cemetery)
The Certosa, together with the Church of San Cristoforo, is a place to visit by
bike, to appreciate the atmosphere of the garden, so different from the one perceived
in the Jewish Cemetery. Here rests Michelangelo Antonioni, but also De Pisis, and
the Ninetieth Century tombstones impose themselves to the eye of the visitor just
like the ones of the Monumental Cemetery in Milan.
Estes Castle
The Castle is from the Fourteenth Century, therefore it is a late medieval fortress;
but its marble balconies lead us to the Renaissance lifestyle, to the luxury of
the ducal court, as shown also in the paintings of the Filippi’s school. Finally,
it is not a castle “of war”, but a mansion that bewitches the viewer
due to the reveries it recalls on the tracks of the lost opulence.
The Compianto by Guido Mazzoni in the Chiesa del Gesù in Via dei Borgoleoni
The Compianto by Guido Mazzoni catched my attention together with other pieces by
the same artist and other sculptors, like Niccolò Dell’Arca. I explored
their forms in my movie Il pianto della statua, published by Bompiani. These works
belong to the realm of Art but also to that of Faith, represented through a realism
that imposes both subjection and wonder. To admire these masterpieces is a true
adventure for the spirit.
Via dei Duelli, that is the narrowest street of the city
You don’t have to go to Naples to find a narrow street. In Ferrara you’ll
find Via dei Duelli (The Street of the Duels), which is extremely narrow, a fissure
for elves and dwarfs. It is nice to go there to think by yourself under the ideal
constriction of a narrow space.
Sant’Antonio in Polesine
This cloistered convent of Benedictine nuns stands out not only for its beauty,
but also for the XIV century fresco that is to be found within it. It represents
Christ climbing a rung ladder to reach the cross, symbolizing the will to offer
himself as a sacrificial lamb. It is a unique work of art, powerful in its compositional
simplicity.
We highly recommend a visit to the Cavallini Sgarbi Foundation – Ro Ferrarese,
4000 works of art collected by the critic Vittorio Sgarbi. It is also possible to
visit the ancient Historical Pharmacy, beautiful with its floral Liberty furniture,
attached to the Cavallini Sgarbi Foundation. The Sgarbi Historical Pharmacy in Ro
Ferrarese is classified as “of ancient right”, because its institution
is prior to the ordinance by the Pontifical State, enacted on 15th November 1837.
Nevertheless, the first established facts go back to 14th June 1852 and appear in
a private letter through which Luigi Mantovani and his brothers Ippolito and Giovanni
give up the right of pharmacy, exercised in Zocca, to Alessandro Mari for the sum
of ‘fife hundred Roman metal coins”.
Trip on the Po river – on board of the Nena
Time: about two hours. Departure from the Darsena in San Paolo of Ferrara, and on
through the Po Grande to Ro Ferrarese. This is the route of the river ferry Nena.
Better than being in New Orleans: daydreaming along the lands and waters of Ferrara.
The private estate of Zenzalino (between Ro and Copparo), where the mythical
horse Varenne has been trained
This is a wonderful place, a tree-lined, straight white road, with very high poplars
and a few houses that make a small village. But this is also a place of memory,
since the equestrian tradition celebrates this site as the excellent one for Varenne’s
fans.
Tresigallo – a rationalist city, founded by Edmondo Rossoni in '30
It’s a place out of order: the straight narrow streets, the round squares,
the hypnotic geometry of tiled boulevards, the arcades enlightened by the sun, the
undetectable sense of the sacred that surrounds everything, the happy rides on bikes
in the country’s silence.
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