Exactly three months after their inauguration, the Byron and Risorgimento Museums continue to take prime place across national and international media, both digital and traditional.
This week, it is Famiglia Cristiana that takes readers on a fascinating tour, filled with the emotions and sentimental memories of Lord Byron and Teresa Guiccioli. Founded in 1931, the weekly magazine has several hundred thousand readers throughout Italy and beyond. Famiglia Cristiana had already dedicated a fine online feature at the time of the inauguration, but now it returns to the Museum with a comprehensive article by Orsola Vetri vividly recounting over two centuries of “Byromania”—the passionate fascination sparked by the British poet both as a precursor of modern influencers, setting fashion, language, lifestyle, and spreading ideals of freedom and emancipation from European tyrannies, and from today’s perspective, when the poet’s works (some, like Don Juan, written during his Ravenna period) and especially the Museum dedicated to him by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna, chaired by Mirella Falconi Mazzotti, are again receiving worldwide attention beyond the English-speaking world.
Famiglia Cristiana captures well this global surge of interest in the Byron Museum, highlighting its careful preservation of special memorabilia—from the precious letter Byron wrote to Teresa from Missolonghi, symbolizing the ideal bridge between the Byron Museum and the Risorgimento Museum, to jewels, locks of hair, and a variety of messages and notes. The journalist highly appreciated the “visual narratives” created by Studio Azzurro by blending literature and history, where the visitor is the true protagonist in “the most modern and inclusive museum in the world,” as its creator Antonio Patuelli emphasized during the media presentation.
Meanwhile, the Byron and Risorgimento Museums prepare for a significant spring, both for the important institutional visits already planned from early March, and for the arrival of thousands of visitors from around the world, who have already booked tours and visits and who will be the main protagonists of the spring in the splendid courtyard and rooms, and around the precious display cases of the Museums.
Ravenna, February 28, 2025
