In the photo: Giampietro Buttafuoco, President of the Biennale Foundation; Mirella Falconi Mazzotti, President of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna; Piero Casavecchia, President of the ‘Tessere del 900’ Association; and Donatino Domini, Coordinator of the Scientific Committees of the Museums.
This morning, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, President of the Venice Biennale Foundation, visited the Byron and Risorgimento Museums, guided by Mirella Falconi Mazzotti, President of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna, Donatino Domini, Coordinator of the Scientific Committees of the Museums, Director Alberta Fabbri, and restorer Ada Foschini.
Buttafuoco was accompanied by Debora Rossi, Deputy General Director of the Biennale and head of the historical archive, a delegation from the Biennale, filmmaker and video artist Yuri Ancarani, and Piero Casavecchia, President of the ‘Tessere del 900’ Association. They spent considerable time in both the Byron Museum and the Risorgimento Museum.
Buttafuoco suggested that the space could also lend itself well to fascinating staging and performances, especially in the courtyard of Palazzo Guiccioli, as well as within the Museums themselves, which offer a remarkably rich and internationally attractive space for art, literature, and great historical narrations.
While the Byron and Risorgimento Museums are getting ready for very important months ahead—both owing to the arrival of large tourist flows in the spring and the significant institutional visits already scheduled—the stories of Byron, Garibaldi, and the Risorgimento continue to attract attention in various national and international magazines.
Il Carabiniere, the official magazine of the Italian Carabinieri, dedicates an extensive feature by Sergio Campagnolo to the Byron and Risorgimento Museums, which skilfully weaves together the history of the British poet and Garibaldi with the grand dream of freedom of nineteenth-century Europe. Today, this dream of freedom still filters through the windows of Palazzo Guiccioli, meeting the admiring gazes of an ever-growing number of visitors from around the world.
Ravenna, February 25, 2025
