Museo Casa Carducci
House of the Carducci family in Santa Maria a Monte, now a museum with 26 works by Antonio Possenti inspired by the poems of Giosuè Carducci.
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About the museum
The museum occupies the house where the Carducci family lived from 1856 to 1858, at number 29 of today's Via Carducci. The family consisted of the district physician Michele, his wife Ildegonda and their children Dante and Valfredo. The eldest son, Giosuè, a poet and future Nobel laureate, taught rhetoric at the lyceum in San Miniato and often returned home on foot, covering the eighteen kilometres that separated the two towns. The family's stay is documented by the correspondence between Michele and the municipality, kept in the municipal historical archive.
The house was turned into a museum in November 2003. On the second floor of the building is also the pre-unification historical archive of the Comune di Santa Maria a Monte, with registers and files from the mid-14th century to 1861. The house also commemorates the death of the young Dante in 1857, a painful event for the family.
Since 2007, on the occasion of the centenary of the poet's death, it has housed the “Tenero Gigante” collection by Antonio Possenti (1933–2016): twenty-six drawings and paintings dedicated to Carducci's poems, which combine literature and art with a dreamy gaze attentive to reality, from family affections to nature.
Highlights
- House lived in by the Carducci family from 1856 to 1858
- The “Tenero Gigante” collection by Antonio Possenti
- Twenty-six works inspired by Carducci's poems
- Pre-unification historical archive of the municipality
- Virtual visit of the museum online
Permanent exhibition
- Tenero Gigante – Antonio Possenti per Carducci – Twenty-six drawings and paintings by Antonio Possenti dedicated to the poems of Giosuè Carducci.
- Founded
- 2007
- Operated by
- Comune di Santa Maria a Monte
- Visitors per year
- approx. 1,032
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Getting there & parking
The museum is at Via Carducci 29, in the historic centre of Santa Maria a Monte; the municipal library is opposite.
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | Visits by reservation outside normal hours: +39 333 349 5168 or +39 0587 261 640. |
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