{"id":965,"date":"2015-07-16T09:12:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T07:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lariostovillamanaresi.it\/our-history\/"},"modified":"2023-06-08T20:11:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T18:11:19","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lariostovillamanaresi.it\/en\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"OUR HISTORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='full_slider_1'  class='avia-fullwidth-slider main_color avia-shadow   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap fullsize'  ><div  class='avia-slideshow av-lb9kp4ed-51c22c81c3da3e75e5f69bedf36d3a0a avia-slideshow-featured_large av_slideshow_full avia-slide-slider av-slideshow-ui av-control-default av-slideshow-manual av-loop-once av-loop-manual-endless av-default-height-applied   avia-slideshow-1' 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enthusiast and scholar of Risorgimento history. The visit that followed, aroused great interest and through meticulous research work traced the history and transformations documenting and reconstructing the steps from its origins in the 13th century.<\/p>\n<p>The Villa was now destined for a slow and inexorable decline, the west wall had been restored to rough condition following a bombing raid among those that hit the area between September 1 and 26,1944, and the coachman&#8217;s house now reduced to ruins had even been erased from cadastral maps.<\/p>\n<p>The condition it was in is hard to imagine looking at it today, the testimony of before-and-after photos tells us that only his passion and tenacity could restore memory and dignity to a place that bears witness to a past otherwise lost to the city. He had been able to see beyond the rubble and the poor condition of the interiors. The frescoes, most of which were painted in the summer of 1632, have been attributed to painters, and among them a couple are reminiscent of what the villa looked like in its heyday, a landmark in the long journey of choices for renovation.<\/p>\n<p>Franco Manaresi has recovered it from oblivion and decay, and now it is up to us to continue his work by taking on the challenge to bring it into the digital age.<\/p>\n<p>Each cultural property, identified by Art 2 Paragraph 2 and Articles 10 and 11 of Leg. 42\/2004 of the Cultural Heritage and Landscape Code, implicitly asks not to be forgotten, to be maintained, preserved and enhanced.<\/p>\n<p>It is in the awareness of this responsibility that upon his death on December 16, 2021, his sons were given the honor and burden of maintaining what he accomplished by ferrying L&#8217;Ariosto to the new form of enhancement offered by the web.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av-layout-grid-1'  class='av-layout-grid-container av-epkxm-fd968322997a4d38d1710745c45ad134 entry-content-wrapper main_color av-flex-cells  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  grid-row-not-first  container_wrap fullsize'  >\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3wew76-e47ee2a2654a0f442a43dd54e5b0e8b2\">\n.flex_cell.av-3wew76-e47ee2a2654a0f442a43dd54e5b0e8b2{\nvertical-align:top;\nheight:400px;\nmin-height:400px;\nbackground:url(https:\/\/www.lariostovillamanaresi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_3895-700.jpg) 50% 50% no-repeat scroll ;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_cell.av-3wew76-e47ee2a2654a0f442a43dd54e5b0e8b2{\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_cell av-3wew76-e47ee2a2654a0f442a43dd54e5b0e8b2 av-gridrow-cell av_one_half no_margin  avia-builder-el-8  el_before_av_cell_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  avia-full-contain' ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3qrmaq-79ab80b0f0b166159038acc4d9e4ded9\">\n.flex_cell.av-3qrmaq-79ab80b0f0b166159038acc4d9e4ded9{\nvertical-align:top;\nheight:400px;\nmin-height:400px;\nbackground:url(https:\/\/www.lariostovillamanaresi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/retro600.jpg) 50% 50% no-repeat scroll ;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_cell.av-3qrmaq-79ab80b0f0b166159038acc4d9e4ded9{\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_cell av-3qrmaq-79ab80b0f0b166159038acc4d9e4ded9 av-gridrow-cell av_one_half no_margin  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_cell_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  avia-full-contain' ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3k1of6-ffc844bf106a31bdd0920be5eed0ed81\">\n.avia-section.av-3k1of6-ffc844bf106a31bdd0920be5eed0ed81{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/www.lariostovillamanaresi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ornament-bg-top-small-1.png);\nbackground-position:50% 0%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_2'  class='avia-section av-3k1of6-ffc844bf106a31bdd0920be5eed0ed81 main_color avia-section-huge avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_layout_row  el_before_av_layout_row  avia-full-contain avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  data-section-bg-repeat='contain'><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-965'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3dag8y-df85893ab5d165cb3b0ada166da7c037\">\n.flex_column.av-3dag8y-df85893ab5d165cb3b0ada166da7c037{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-3dag8y-df85893ab5d165cb3b0ada166da7c037 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-11  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top av-zero-column-padding '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-35z4b6-8fb82aa1fa1df5508d1a840535c9c520\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-35z4b6-8fb82aa1fa1df5508d1a840535c9c520{\npadding-bottom:0;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-35z4b6-8fb82aa1fa1df5508d1a840535c9c520 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-35z4b6-8fb82aa1fa1df5508d1a840535c9c520 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-35z4b6-8fb82aa1fa1df5508d1a840535c9c520 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-12  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >L\u2019ARIOSTO &#8211; Villa Manaresi  <\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-338z4q-0616efa834506896789a702324ee8c1d'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>&#8220;Here are the bright and passionate crops of wheat, aerial vine, hemp, an expanse like a sea&#8221; ( G. Raimondi, Notizie dall&#8217;Emilia, Einaudi 1954)  <\/p>\n<p>The history of the Villa  <\/p>\n<p>In the 1600s, all around Villa L&#8217;Ariosto existed only countryside as far as the eye could see, faint traces of dirt roads and in the distance a ribbon of trees that still like soldiers on a picket line watch the flowing waters of the Idice River, making it detectable in a bountiful plain.<\/p>\n<p>Villa the Ariosto, the origin of the name &#8211; 1590<br \/>\nThe search for the origin of the name given to the villa goes back to the earliest information found, more specifically, the purchase of &#8220;a prediolo, with house, threshing floor, well, oven and attached stable&#8221; made in 1590 by Cassandra Gaddi, widow of Ettore Ariosti.<br \/>\nThe prestigious name of the Ariosti family, which owned the Villanova and Marano estate for only 37 years, became a toponym &#8220;of Ariosto&#8217;s places&#8221; even after the subsequent sale to wealthy timber merchant Marcantonio Pederzani in 1627.<br \/>\nThe Ariosti were one of the oldest families in Bologna, named after the town of Riosto near Pianoro where they owned land and a castle. Its members included clergymen, politicians, men-at-arms, university professors and men of culture. Corradino Ariosti, of the Order of Preachers, promoted the construction of St. Dominic&#8217;s library in 1400 and was proclaimed Blessed for his intense religious life.<br \/>\nThe family in the sec. XIII split into two branches, Bonifazio gave rise to the Ferrara branch from which the famous scholar Lodovico would be born in 1474, while his brother Tommaso continued the main and wealthy Bologna branch.<\/p>\n<p>Villa Pederzani, from Manor House to Holiday Palace &#8211; 1627<br \/>\nAfter the purchase in 1627, Marcantonio Pederzani transformed the manor house into a proper holiday palace, as was in use among the noble families of the sec. 17th century: the typical three-pitch roofing of farm houses in the Bologna area was converted to a four-pitch hipped roof, allowing for a fully habitable second floor and a service attic. An adjacent wing was built to the east, containing the farmer&#8217;s house and a shed. The dovecote tower characterized the building&#8217;s elevation.<\/p>\n<p>The plague of 1630 probably delayed the completion of the transformation, but by 1632 numerous painters were already frescoing the building&#8217;s interior, giving it the connotation of a stately palace.  <\/p>\n<p>Villa Orsi and the construction of the theater in the west wing &#8211; 1694<br \/>\nLater, the villa was inhabited by Marquis Giovanni Giuseppe Felice Orsi, who became its owner in 1694 after leasing it for several years. He was responsible for the construction of the west wing of the villa, symmetrical to the pre-existing east wing, in which there was a small but rational theater and a small private chapel. This wing collapsed during one of the bombings in April 1944 and was never rebuilt.<br \/>\nGuests at the villa delighted in theatrical performances that enlivened the summer holiday season. Marquis Orsi was a prominent figure in Bolognese society at the time; he was a cultured, refined man and cared for the study of literature. His passion for theater led him to perform with ladies and knights within the private homes of Bologna, which at the time frequently had a theater, and he established an Academy in his own home where twice a week erudite discussions of Poetics and Eloquence took place, ending with a sumptuous dinner. Marquis Orsi died in 1734 at the age of 82; throughout the Italian peninsula his value as a man of genius and culture was recognized, and he was honored by Pope Clement XI, the Duke of Parma, other princes and cardinals, and almost all the Academies of Italy. The clear fame, which had accompanied him in his time, was not immortal because, today, he is a figure whose memory has unfortunately been lost.<\/p>\n<p>Palazzo Conti i.e. the transformation of the pigeon tower into a specola or belvedere &#8211; 1740<br \/>\nIn 1718 L&#8217;Ariosto was purchased by Matteo Conti, a wealthy bourgeois family with countless properties in the city, and from then on the villa was identified on maps as Palazzo Conti. He was responsible for the transformation, carried out in 1740, of the pigeon tower into a specola or, more simply, a belvedere. Some plans for this intervention are preserved in the villa, although they differ from what was actually carried out. The specula is connoted by an elegant and large serlian window, to maintain greater congruity with the style of the villa and its purpose as a summer home.<\/p>\n<p>Villa Silvani, the making of the hall &#8211; 1820<br \/>\nIn 1820 the villa was purchased by the lawyer. Antonio Silvani, a distinguished jurist, university professor, patriot and statesman. He participated in the Risorgimento uprisings of 1831 and served as Minister of Justice in the Government of the United Provinces, but when the revolution failed he was imprisoned by the Austrians and forced into exile in Paris and Lucca. In 1846 he received an amnesty, was reinstated to his university professorship and, together with Marco Minghetti, was appointed a member of the Consulta di Stato established by Pius IX to represent Bologna. The following year he died suddenly in Rome.<br \/>\nAfter purchasing the mansion, Adv. Silvani had a salon made, merging the two salons located to the northeast. The load-bearing wall that divided the two rooms was replaced by a segmental arch, covered by a pavilion vault made of arelle and plaster, finely decorated in the manner of Giani; an original space of the villa&#8217;s interiors. The construction of the vault has concealed from view the wall friezes and 17th-century coffered ceilings, which today remain partially visible from a small closet above.<\/p>\n<p>Abandonment &#8211; 1945 to 1981<br \/>\nThe descendants of Adv. Silvani held prestigious positions in the university and city institutions until the last descendant Paul, who was born in 1881 and died in 1945.<br \/>\nThe latter was a board member of the University, numerous public corporations and Opere Pie, and was a member of the Deputation of Local History, the Academy of Agriculture and cultural institutes.<br \/>\nAll the Silvans were very attached to the palace at Villanova, where they spent the summer months. Only Paul designated the mansion as his permanent home and, for him, it was a hard blow to witness its partial destruction and devastation due to the war. It is said that these events were a concomitant cause of his death from heartbreak, which occurred in June 1945.<br \/>\nIn 1943, a Germanic military command had occupied the villa, but the Allied bombing raids, which hit the area hard and repeatedly in 1944, probably had the nearby Marano powder magazine and the adjacent San Donato railroad yard as their main targets.<br \/>\nIt is not known precisely which of these air raids hit the villa, destroying the west wing, and the forest to the north, leaving craters still visible when restoration work began in the early 1980s.<br \/>\nThe mansion, thus damaged and defenseless, became the object of looting and vandalism: all wood paneling, furniture and parquet floors were torn up and burned.<br \/>\nUpon the death of his brother Paul, his sister Maria, the only surviving member of the family, attempted to prevent the villa&#8217;s deterioration. He rebuilt in the rough the damaged wall bordering the theater, which was destroyed by bombs, relocated the fixtures to the ground floor windows to prevent further devastation.<br \/>\nThus the villa became a place of shelter for homeless families and, later, was frequented by Castenaso&#8217;s youth to meet and dance inside the lodge. It was no longer inhabited. Only the settler Duilio, who had spent his life on the Silvani property, continued to occupy the farmer&#8217;s house, in the few rooms that were not damaged, as a shelter and resting place on days spent cultivating the surrounding fields.<br \/>\nIn 1964 Maria Silvani died, ending a bourgeois dynasty that had lived in Bologna for 150 years, excelling in culture and civic and civic engagement. After a few years, Ballarini&#8217;s heirs put the villa together with the funds up for sale, but it remained unsold until June 19, 1981, when Franco Manaresi bought it, deeding the bare ownership to his children Giovanni, Stefano, Nicol\u00f2 and Carolina Manaresi.<\/p>\n<p>Restoration<br \/>\nIn 1981 the mansion presented itself to the visitor in complete and melancholy disrepair: the plaster and gutters were falling off, the arelle cornice gutted, the walls overgrown with weeds, a once manicured forest of delight had been transformed by the growth of brambles into an inaccessible place.<br \/>\nThe interior of the mansion was even more bleak and dingy, a tractor and other farm implements were in the center of the loggia, the walls were peeling from rising damp, the cornices and stucco in pieces; the doors, frames and stained glass in the loggia were totally absent. The second floor lacked glass, and the shutters were the only barrier protecting the interior even though some of them had been damaged by woodpeckers and dormice that had turned some rooms into winter dens where they accumulated acorns brought from the garden. The west wall was still in the rough, the existence of an ancient electrical system was revealed by pieces of wire falling from the ceiling and ancient porcelain insulators still nailed to the walls. The attic was in even worse condition, masonry and framed partition walls were in disrepair and filled the floor with debris; the roof structure deteriorated so much that it was propped up in several places. The only toilet was a drop latrine with an underlying cesspool located under the staircase. The finishing touch to this distressing desolation was provided by seeing sudden movements of rats running along the frieze frames, the villa&#8217;s uncontested masters for nearly four decades.<br \/>\nOnly the frescoes on the ground floor, covered with cobwebs that like black drapes enveloped them, held colors and images that were waiting to be revealed to revive the history that the mansion held.<br \/>\nDespite the decay, squalor, and collaborative cover, the villa manifested good structural stability, while the adjacent &#8220;Farmer&#8217;s House,&#8221; the eastern body, was in complete ruin.<br \/>\nHaving carried out a survey of the building and obtained approval of the intervention project from the Superintendence for Environmental and Architectural Heritage of the Municipality of Castenaso, work began in the spring of 1983.<br \/>\nAfter some emergency work was carried out, recovery work progressed systematically until it was completed in May 1987. The complete reconstruction of the roof, done entirely in lumber, was followed by the consolidation of the attic floor and the restoration of the farmer&#8217;s house. The phases of the four-year restoration presented challenges of complex solution while continuously and consistently respecting the soul of the villa and its long history.<br \/>\nBetween 2001 and 2005, the &#8220;Casa del Cocchiere&#8221; was reconstructed. A small building used as a stable, carriage house and coachman&#8217;s dwelling, located east of the &#8220;Farmer&#8217;s House&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After forty years of total neglect, a monument that we consider important for the works of art it contains, the historical memories of the families and personalities who owned it, has come back to life.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av-layout-grid-2'  class='av-layout-grid-container av-2f8s0q-83ade199a3d136341ad318bd6542c81e entry-content-wrapper main_color av-flex-cells  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  grid-row-not-first  container_wrap fullsize'  >\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" 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The height was considerable, almost 6.00m but there was no perimeter balcony.<br \/>\nThe stage was quite wide with a proscenium and proscenium, was 1.30m higher than the stalls, and there was a basement cellar underneath.<br \/>\nA side staircase led from the stage up to some rooms for the actors&#8217; use.<br \/>\nFrom the Legatizi Diaries we know that in September 1697 there began to be performances in an appointment that was renewed from year to year in the same period until 1700, and that saw not only professional actors and actresses but also friends of Marquis Orsi such as Marquis Francesco Pepoli, Count Nicol\u00f2 Fava, Prospero Malvezzi, Senator Casali, Marquis Francesco Monti, and a very young Prospero Lambertini who was very good at playing Doctor Balanzone, the future Pope Benedict XIV in 1740.<br \/>\nThe parable of such a lively and heartfelt season in Bolognese society that developed between 1697 and 1700 was followed by near abandonment and last traces of memory that belonged to the inhabitants of the area who recall performances of parish philodramas that took place in the 1930s at which the surviving members of the Silvani family almost never attended.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-10gfsy-7079e4fc883f5758f9ce5fbf635d1e0e\">\n.flex_column.av-10gfsy-7079e4fc883f5758f9ce5fbf635d1e0e{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-10gfsy-7079e4fc883f5758f9ce5fbf635d1e0e av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-22  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top av-zero-column-padding '     ><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-965","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - 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