Egidio Di Velo in the Vicenza culture of the nineteenth century Count Girolamo Egidio di Velo was born in Vicenza in 1792 from a noble family with vast possessions; he had in the city the Di Velo palace in Carpagnon, so comfortable that it could house the King of Denmark in 1709; in 1808 he also inherited the Montanari palace. After his studies, from 1812 he went on an educational tour in Europe: Paris, Holland, Denmark. He returned to Italy and in 1816 he was in Rome, Nap

VICENZA IN THE CENTER VICENZA IN THE CENTER IN THE CENTER In its tenth year of life it wants to be a community more than ever. Every day with the industrious aperitifs at the well-known meeting places in the historic center, it gathers everyone, with particular regard for lonely people, to exchange opinions, information, even material help and a lot of friendship . To be a cultural association , it organizes study meetings and visits to places of interest, even less known bu

A square, a city ... beautiful A square, a city ... beautiful between beautiful and beautiful there is a difference. I am referring to the name that Vicenza carries with it from the past. But today? UNESCO city. True. But certainly not beautiful, if we look a bit around beyond the "usual" historical living room. But the city is not all there. I pause on Piazza S. Lorenzo . A scenographic, rich square: A cleaned monument dedicated to Giacomo Zanella, the Temple of San Lorenz

Monte Crocetta a hill a stones throw from the city. A mini emotional paradise that in this period of pandemic closures was "discovered"...

My home ! Very funny, really. In the eighteenth-century guides for the first English tourists, this house of mine must have been, certainly not a palace, but worthy of the master of the Quattro Libri . I never bought a house in my Vicenza. It was instead, this house, the notary Cogollo who asked for the citizenship of Vicenza: for this purpose he would have to renovate this facade as a contribution "to the decorum of the city", for no less than 250 ducats. The opportunity

My only palace in Verona , in the heart of the ancient city, a stone's throw from Porta Iovia (today Borsari). Contrada S. Marco was a legacy of the dark ages, a stone's throw from the ruins of the lost world that we were rebuilding anew. Giambattista Della Torre was among those men who could afford to understand, dream and realize this vision. Related to "my" Valmarana and the Thiene , a friend of "my" Giangiorgio Trissino , he asked me to design his small city palace . D

My Villa in the hills of Verona , proof that even as an old man - yes, by now I was - I still knew how to innovate . Up to the end. It is not only that Veronese, Spartan rustication, irregular ashlars like rough sections of the mountain, under those unexpected Ionic capitals .. It is not only the powerful grotesque of this idea. It is the idea of ​​an emptiness , inviting, seductive, which brings you - you guest - to the center , welcomed in the property of the Sarego di

In a few years since the beginning of my education, the word had begun to spread, and this was my first villa for a Venetian family: the Pisans , who had received from the Serenissima the fiefdom confiscated from the Nogarole of Verona for their loyalty to emperor in the League of Cambrai. For the three brothers, Marco, Daniele and Vettore I have created a powerful villa , reworking several ideas from my first trips to Verona and Rome. Villa Pisani Bonetti is only one of the

Mine or not mine? Mine in any case, to the extent that mine is the “ Palladian ” style that was already beginning to be imitated in my time, as it will be in the following centuries in different parts of the world. In the garden of the Valmaranas, for Leonardo son of my great friend Giovanni Alvise, under the walls of Porta Castello, a loggia is reflected in double symmetry on the veil of water. It is form and substance, it is idea and matter, it is vision and reality. L