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Historical Sgarbi Chemist’s
Farmacia Storica Sgarbi Ro Ferrarese

Fondazione Elisabetta Sgarbi


Cavallini-Sgarbi Houses

Luxury Hotel Residence

Via Giuoco del Pallone, 31 – Ferrara

Try the sophisticated atmosphere of a a historical residential house in the medieval heart of Ferrara.
Spend very special days in the rooms where Ludovico Ariosto wrote the Orlando furioso.
Let yourself be enchanted by the view of secret gardens, terracotta arches and historical furnishings.

Infos and bookings:
elisabetta.sgarbi@lanavediteseo.eu


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Built in the medieval period nearby the church of Santa Maria delle Bocche, in 1471 the palace passed from the notary public Rinaldo Mezzaprile do the Ariosto family, along with the adjoining building (the Magna Domus of the distinguished family), to which is linked by a bridge in vicolo del Granchio. In 1481 the building passed to the canon Brunoro Ariosto: the Christological monogram placed in the façade dates probably back to this period, in memory of the preaching of Bernardino da Siena in Ferrara, who adopted it as his emblem. The marble portal with archivolt and key bracket can be dated back to the sixteenth century

While Brunoro was canon in Rovigo, his brother Nicolò established himself in the palace, of whom the world-famous Ludovico was born, at the time ten years-old. In this building, the author-to be of the Orlando Furioso studied with his tutor, Domenico Catabena from Argenta, and in all likelihood he wrote his first poems and few premature theatrical texts. When his father died, the great poet left Ferrara in order to go to Canossa as castellan of the Fortress, although he returned to live inthese rooms several times, until when he bought the house in the quarter of Mirasole. In the house situated in via Del Giuoco del Pallone 31, of which he later became the only owner, Ludovico wrote long passages of the first draft of the Orlando Furioso, published in 1516.

After the Ariostos, the palace passed to the noble family Canani and then to the Federicis, Righettis, Agnolettis, until it was bought by the landscape painter and art critic Ferdinando Ughi in the nineteenth century. He then sold it to the painter Oreste Buzzi in 1913, who had just came back from Brazil with considerable financial resources, after having also worked for the President of the Republic. Upon Buzzi’s death, in 1943, the son Ugo gave the house to the Cavallinis, parents of Bruno (Eleonora Cavallini’s father), Rina and Romana (mother of Mario, Giovanni, Bruno and Anna Verdi ). Rina Cavallini got married to Giuseppe Sgarbi and gave birth to Vittorio and Elisabetta Sgarbi.

Of Renaissance taste is the front, exquisitely ornamental in the tradition of the Ferrara “terracotta.” The ancient portico on the ground floor was tamponed during the sixteenth century, while the façade was raised after Buzzi bought it according to his own plan, and he intelligently tried to keep the stylistic unity with the piano nobile and decorated it personally with fine tempera colours of late Art Nouveau and Art Deco taste, both on the ceilings and on the walls. At the time when Oreste Buzzi bought the house, there was a big room on the ground floor (beck then a wood and carbon shop) where, according to the tradition, Ludovico Ariosto staged his plays in front of his family, as a preview.



Cavallini-Sgarbi Houses

Luxury Hotel Residential House

Via Giuoco del Pallone, 31 – Ferrara

Try the sophisticated atmosphere of a historical residential house in the medieval heart of Ferrara.
Spend very special days in the rooms where Ludovico Ariosto wrote the Orlando furioso.
Let yourself be enchanted by the view of secret gardens, terracotta arches and historical furnishings.

Infos and bookings:
elisabetta.sgarbi@lanavediteseo.eu


Casa Uno - Elisabetta
Upper Floor - 145 square meters
View of the garden and medieval side of Vicolo del Granchio
Rooms
Wide living room and lounge
Kitchen-diner
2 Double bedrooms
1 Single bedrooms
2 bathrooms
Air conditioner
Two Televisions

Casa Due - Vittorio
Middle Floor - 145 square meters
View of the garden and medieval side of Vicolo del Granchio
Rooms

Wide living room and lounge
Kitchen-diner
Study
2 Double bedrooms
1 bathroom
Air conditioner
Two Televisions
Casa Tre - Caterina
First Floor - 70 square meters
View of the inside gardens and medieval side of the Vicolo del Granchio
Rooms
Living room and lounge
1 Double bedroom
Small studio
Kitchen
1 bathroom
Air conditioner
Two Televisions
House Four – Giuseppe
First floor – 70 sm
Sight on internal gardens and terrace
Rooms
Living room and dining room
Kitchen
Two double bedrooms
One bathroom
Air conditioner
Two Televisions


Cavallini-Sgarbi Houses

Luxury Hotel Residential House

Via Giuoco del Pallone, 31 – Ferrara

Try the sophisticated atmosphere of a historical residential house in the medieval heart of Ferrara.
Spend very special days in the rooms where Ludovico Ariosto wrote the Orlando furioso.
Let yourself be enchanted by the view of secret gardens, terracotta arches and historical furnishings.

Infos and bookings:
elisabetta.sgarbi@lanavediteseo.eu


Photogallery

A gallery of pictures of Case Cavallini - Sgarbi



Cavallini-Sgarbi Houses

Luxury Hotel Residential House

Via Giuoco del Pallone, 31 – Ferrara

Cavallini-Sgarbi Houses

Luxury Hotel Residential House

Via Giuoco del Pallone, 31 – Ferrara

Try the sophisticated atmosphere of a historical residential house in the medieval heart of Ferrara.
Spend very special days in the rooms where Ludovico Ariosto wrote the Orlando furioso.
Let yourself be enchanted by the view of secret gardens, terracotta arches and historical furnishings.

Infos and bookings:
elisabetta.sgarbi@lanavediteseo.eu



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Cavallini-Sgarbi Houses

Luxury Hotel Residential House

Via Giuoco del Pallone, 31 – Ferrara

Try the sophisticated atmosphere of a historical residential house in the medieval heart of Ferrara.
Spend very special days in the rooms where Ludovico Ariosto wrote the Orlando furioso.
Let yourself be enchanted by the view of secret gardens, terracotta arches and historical furnishings.

Infos and bookings:
elisabetta.sgarbi@lanavediteseo.eu


Apartment Elisabetta
from 160 Euros for one/two people to 300 Euros for five people (December 20 to January 9: 250 Euros); two double rooms and one single room; two bathrooms; in the apartment there is a great fresco portraying a wood and the art of writing in the main living-room, a spacious kitchen with a dining area, a study and a long corridor with library.

Apartment Vittorio
from 135 Euros for one/two people to 250 Euros for four people (December 20 to January 9: 210 Euros); one spacious double room with a view of the inner garden, one room with a three-quarter bed, one bathroom; a spacious living-room with vintage paintings, a little study, a roomy kitchen with a view of the Granchio medieval alley.

Apartment Caterina
95 Euros for one/two people (December 20 to January 9: 130 Euros); living-room with a view of the church of San Gregorio, a study with seventeenth-century furniture, one bathroom. Antonio Stagnoli's frescos in the bedroom and living-room.

Apartment Giuseppe
from 115 Euros for one/two people to 140 Euros for three people (December 20 to January 9: 165 Euros); first floor – 70 sm; sight on internal gardens and medieval terrace; rooms: living room and dining room; kitchen; two double bedrooms; one bathroom



PETS

Pets are NOT allowed in the apartments.



TOURIST TAX

This tax has been introduced since June 1st 2013. It is mandatory for everyone who finds accommodation in Ferrara (1,50 Euros for each, for a maximum of 5 days)



SERVICES
Bike Rental: 5 euros at day

Security-monitored Parking Lot: 5 euros at day

High Chair and cradles available on request


RESERVATIONS

Reservations for a stay less than a week long must be cancelled within 48 hours before the arrival. Otherwise the fee for the whole period reserved will be charged.

Reservation for a stay longer than a week, up to a month, will be charged for the whole period reserved even if the guests should interrupt their stay for any inconvenience.


CHECK-OUT

Check-out until 11.00 a.m. on the last day of stay.


DAMAGES POLICY

For every damage to apartments, furniture and objects due to negligence, the guests will be considered responsible e shall refund the expenses related to repair.



DAILY CLEANING

During the staying will be charged 5 euro for daily cleaning



CONTACTS CASE CAVALLINI SGARBI
349 7221394





Cavallini-Sgarbi Houses

Luxury Hotel Residential House

Via Giuoco del Pallone, 31 – Ferrara

Try the sophisticated atmosphere of a historical residential house in the medieval heart of Ferrara.
Spend very special days in the rooms where Ludovico Ariosto wrote the Orlando furioso.
Let yourself be enchanted by the view of secret gardens, terracotta arches and historical furnishings.

Infos and bookings:
elisabetta.sgarbi@lanavediteseo.eu


Guests of the Cavallini-Sgarbi Houses will enjoy advantageous discounts at:

Boutique Alberto Biani, Via della Luna 20, tel. 0532.205040
Concept-Store Sabai-Sabai, Piazza Sacrati 28, tel. 0532.243386
Restaurant Max, Piazza della Repubblica 16, tel. 0532.209309


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Historical Sgarbi chemist’s

Piazza Umberto I, 23 – Ro Ferrarese (Fe)

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The Historical Sgarbi Chemist’s in Ro Ferrarese is described as “by old right”, because its foundation turns out to be prior to the regulations of the Papal States promulgated on November, 15, 1837. However, the first reliable news dates back to June 14, 1852, and appear in a private treaty with which Luigi Mantovani and his brothers, Ippolito and Giovanni, relinquish the right to practice the profession of chemist, based in the town of Zocca, to Alessandro Mari for “five hundred metallic Roman scudos.” After the payment of the sum agreed upon, on July 19 of the same year, the new owner asks the magistrates of the municipality of Copparo the permission to move the shop and the laboratory to Ro. When Mari died, on February 11, 1868, his wife, Felicissima Boccafolli, inherits the chemist’s shop, and she makes doctor Stanislao Schiavo, to whom she will get married a few years later, the manager of the shop. Upon the death of the woman, the business is taken over by Francesco and Ilda Schiavo, Stamislao’s sons.
In 1940, chemist’s shop belongs to Alda Scutellari who, on March 2, hands over its management to her husband, Alessandro Guglielmini. This is the person who, thirteen years later, on November 4, 1953, will relinquish the right to practice the profession of chemist to Giuseppe and Rina Sgarbi – parents of Vittorio and Elisabetta Sgarbi, who will graduate in pharmacy, despite her literary interests – along with “the furnishings, the shelves, the desks, the swingles, and the other furniture” in the “shop belonging to the house facing Piazza Umberto 1 in Ro Ferrarese”. Since that day, almost nothing has changed in the Historical Sgarbi Chemist’s Shop, and the customer who crosses its threshold and meets the doctors Elisa and Silvia Sgarbi founds himself magically cast in the early twentieth century, surrounded by the winding contours of Art Nouveau that transforms the shop windows, the counter, the mirrors and the chandelier in veritable works of art.



Cavallini-Sgarbi Houses

Luxury Hotel Residential House

Via Giuoco del Pallone, 31 – Ferrara

Try the sophisticated atmosphere of a historical residential house in the medieval heart of Ferrara.
Spend very special days in the rooms where Ludovico Ariosto wrote the Orlando furioso.
Let yourself be enchanted by the view of secret gardens, terracotta arches and historical furnishings.

Infos and bookings:
elisabetta.sgarbi@lanavediteseo.eu




Apartment Elisabetta: Tullio Pericoli
Tullio Pericoli, painter and illustrator, was born in Colli del Tronto, Marche, and he lives in Milan since 1961. He exposes in many galleries, Italian and foreigner museums, and publishes his illustrations on the most important international newspapers and magazines. His recent activity as scene designer has leaded him to working with Opernhaus of Zurigo, Teatro Studio and Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Among his books: Ritratti arbitrari (1990), Attraverso il disegno (1991), Colti nel segno (1995), Terre (2000), Nature (2002), I ritratti (2002) e Otto scrittori (2003).


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Apartment Vittorio: Wainer Vaccari
Wainer Vaccari was born on 8th December 1949 in Modena, where he still lives and works. He spends his childhood in the German Switzerland, where he enters in contact with Nordic painting. After an exhibition on New Objectivity in Modena, he develops a pictorial language tied with analytic realism of German movement. His refined pictorial technique increases the mysterious and majestic atmosphere where his lunatic characters are inserted. He begins to expose in 1970. Since nineties he increases his exposing activity abroad, in 1994 a great exhibition, where two sculptures are present too, is organized at Galleria Civica in Modena; in the same year another exhibition is set up firstly in Denmark, then in Germany, Holland and Belgium.


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Apartment Caterina: Antonio Stagnoli
Was born at Bagolino in the province of Brescia. He lived and worked between Brescia and Bagolino, alternating the suggestive visions, which from his studio in Brescia opened out onto the most ancient part of the city - to genuine images of native mountains of Val di Sabbia. He was a painter of oils, incisions, pastels and china. Besides Alfredo Bonomi, Piero Borghini, Gianfranco Bruno, Mario De Micheli, Chiara Gatti, Enrico Ghezzi, Franco Loi, Franco Marcoaldi, Dario Micacchi, Domenico Montalto, Mario Pancera, Elisabetta Sgarbi, Vittorio Sgarbi, Roberto Tassi and Lorenza Trucchi all wrote about him.


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Apartment Giuseppe: Vanni Cuoghi
Vanni Cuoghi was born in Genova, Italy, in 1966. His painting resambles characters that seem to pop out of a fairy tale book that has lost its happy ending. He' s been part of many major art shows around the world, among them Maestri di Brera (2008) at the Liu-Haisu Museum in Shangai and the Biennale in St. Petersburg. In 2009, together with the Italian Newbrow group, his work is at the Praga Biennale (by Giancarlo Politi and Ivan Quaroni). In New York he's part of the art show “Il nuovo profilo italiano” at the Scope Art Fair. In 2011 he's in Venice, at the 54 Biennale, in the Padiglione Italia by Vittorio Sgarbi.


Vanni Cuoghi




Hallway between Apartment Giuseppe and Apartment Caterina: Angelo Davoli
Angelo Diavoli, 1960, Reggio Emilia
Recent exhibitions: Industrial Landscapes, 2001, Reggio Emilia Museums; in 2002 Hof&Huyser gallery, Amsterdam, and Annovi di Sassuolo, edited by A.Riva; Surrealism of the Po Valley, Palazzo Gotico in Piacenza and Rivoltella Museum in Trieste, edited by V. Sgarbi. Skyline, 2004, in San Mattia Church, Bologna, edited by M. Padreni; Quadriennale in Rome, section by B. Buscaroli; winner of the Michetti Prize, 55th edition. In 2007 LE COLLETTIVE by Vittorio Sgarbi at PAC in Milan and Painting in the last 40 years at Palazzo Reale.
Davoli has edited scripts for Aterballetto: in 2007 for InCanto and in 2009 scenes and videos for Certe notti, choreographies by M. Bigonzetti, music by Ligabue. In 2009 Cantiere Morini work in progress is exhibited at the First Gallery in Rome, in 2010 at Palazzo Casotti, in Reggio Emilia, text by Marc Augé, and at the Dieffe Gallery in Turin. In 2011 he is at the 54th Biennale in Venice at the Italian Pavilion by V. Sgarbi.


Angelo Davoli



Cavallini-Sgarbi Houses

Luxury Hotel Residential House

Via Giuoco del Pallone, 31 – Ferrara

Try the sophisticated atmosphere of a historical residential house in the medieval heart of Ferrara.
Spend very special days in the rooms where Ludovico Ariosto wrote the Orlando furioso.
Let yourself be enchanted by the view of secret gardens, terracotta arches and historical furnishings.

Infos and bookings:
elisabetta.sgarbi@lanavediteseo.eu



Itineraries in Ferrara



Schifanoia Palace

Symbol of the Estensis’ power, it is an ideal equivalent of the Palace of Reason. Here is still alive the memory of the most important painters from Ferrara, and in particular that of Francesco dal Cossa. Of great relevance, the wonderful portal of marble, with family symbols.

Museum of Cathedral Dome

You can’t think about this museum of Via San Romano, without the immediate recognition of the organ’s shutters, with masterpieces by Cosmè Tura: Saint George with the Princess, and above all The Annunciation: a jewel of prospective. A perfect geometry that sees in the correspondence between the two figures, the one of the Angel and the one of the Virgin, the exact correspondence between the divine and the human.

Antonioni’s House

We could speak for hours, days, about Michelangelo Antonioni. Maybe it would be sufficient to say that he has been the only Italian director to tell stories about life silences and spaces. It wouldn’t be possible to think about a lot of contemporary art and photography without a clear reference to him.

Biagio Rossetti’s House

Located in Via XX Settembre, previously named Via della Ghiara, the house of the most famous architect of Ferrara, Biagio Rossetti, is now the first Italian Museum of Architecture. The visitor will immediately notice the mullioned windows and terracotta decorations, and will be impressed by the feeling of contemplation. A familiar house, that evokes an idea of intimacy and grace.

Diamonds Palace

In Corso Ercole I d’Este you can also find this palace. Its famous external ashlars in white marble, with pointed ends orientated in different directions to better catch light, give to the building a Borges’s fortification appearance.

The most beautiful street of Europe: Corso Ercole I d’Este

A tangle of aristocratic houses and gardens in the most sumptuous street of Ferrara. It is the poets’ street, where Giorgio Bassani used to go for a walk, plunging in the memories of a lost past.

Jewish Cemetery

This is one of those places where History and Literature are intertwined, under the aegis of an incredible nostalgia that spells anyone. The tombstone of Giorgio Bassani, created by Arnaldo Pomodoro, stands there to remind us that thanks to The Finzi Contini’s Garden there is a special aura surrounding this testimony of the Past, giving it a life, a story: the story of all the men who have built it, just like Bassani. It gives a shiny glow to the memory of the people from Ferrara but also to those who have known it through the pages of the great Italian Narrative of the Twentieth Century.

The Certosa (Catholic Cemetery)

The Certosa, together with the Church of San Cristoforo, is a place to visit by bike, to appreciate the atmosphere of the garden, so different from the one perceived in the Jewish Cemetery. Here rests Michelangelo Antonioni, but also De Pisis, and the Ninetieth Century tombstones impose themselves to the eye of the visitor just like the ones of the Monumental Cemetery in Milan.

Estes Castle

The Castle is from the Fourteenth Century, therefore it is a late medieval fortress; but its marble balconies lead us to the Renaissance lifestyle, to the luxury of the ducal court, as shown also in the paintings of the Filippi’s school. Finally, it is not a castle “of war”, but a mansion that bewitches the viewer due to the reveries it recalls on the tracks of the lost opulence.

The Compianto by Guido Mazzoni in the Chiesa del Gesù in Via dei Borgoleoni

The Compianto by Guido Mazzoni catched my attention together with other pieces by the same artist and other sculptors, like Niccolò Dell’Arca. I explored their forms in my movie Il pianto della statua, published by Bompiani. These works belong to the realm of Art but also to that of Faith, represented through a realism that imposes both subjection and wonder. To admire these masterpieces is a true adventure for the spirit.

Via dei Duelli, that is the narrowest street of the city

You don’t have to go to Naples to find a narrow street. In Ferrara you’ll find Via dei Duelli (The Street of the Duels), which is extremely narrow, a fissure for elves and dwarfs. It is nice to go there to think by yourself under the ideal constriction of a narrow space.

Sant’Antonio in Polesine

This cloistered convent of Benedictine nuns stands out not only for its beauty, but also for the XIV century fresco that is to be found within it. It represents Christ climbing a rung ladder to reach the cross, symbolizing the will to offer himself as a sacrificial lamb. It is a unique work of art, powerful in its compositional simplicity.

Itineraries around Ferrara



We highly recommend a visit to the Cavallini Sgarbi Foundation – Ro Ferrarese, 4000 works of art collected by the critic Vittorio Sgarbi. It is also possible to visit the ancient Historical Pharmacy, beautiful with its floral Liberty furniture, attached to the Cavallini Sgarbi Foundation. The Sgarbi Historical Pharmacy in Ro Ferrarese is classified as “of ancient right”, because its institution is prior to the ordinance by the Pontifical State, enacted on 15th November 1837. Nevertheless, the first established facts go back to 14th June 1852 and appear in a private letter through which Luigi Mantovani and his brothers Ippolito and Giovanni give up the right of pharmacy, exercised in Zocca, to Alessandro Mari for the sum of ‘fife hundred Roman metal coins”.

Trip on the Po river – on board of the Nena

Time: about two hours. Departure from the Darsena in San Paolo of Ferrara, and on through the Po Grande to Ro Ferrarese. This is the route of the river ferry Nena. Better than being in New Orleans: daydreaming along the lands and waters of Ferrara.

The private estate of Zenzalino (between Ro and Copparo), where the mythical horse Varenne has been trained

This is a wonderful place, a tree-lined, straight white road, with very high poplars and a few houses that make a small village. But this is also a place of memory, since the equestrian tradition celebrates this site as the excellent one for Varenne’s fans.

Tresigallo – a rationalist city, founded by Edmondo Rossoni in '30

It’s a place out of order: the straight narrow streets, the round squares, the hypnotic geometry of tiled boulevards, the arcades enlightened by the sun, the undetectable sense of the sacred that surrounds everything, the happy rides on bikes in the country’s silence.



Le Case Cavallini-Sgarbi di Rina Cavallini

Luxury Hotel Residential House

Via Giuoco del Pallone, 31 – Ferrara

Alloggia nella ricercata atmosfera di una residenza storica di charme nel cuore medievale di Ferrara.
Trascorri giornate davvero speciali nelle stanze dove Ludovico Ariosto ha scritto l'Orlando furioso.
Lasciati incantare dalla visione di giardini segreti, archi in cotto ferrarese e arredi storici.

Per informazioni e prenotazioni:
elisabetta.sgarbi@lanavediteseo.eu




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Le Case Cavallini-Sgarbi di Rina Cavallini

Luxury Hotel Residential House

Via Giuoco del Pallone, 31 – Ferrara

Alloggia nella ricercata atmosfera di una residenza storica di charme nel cuore medievale di Ferrara.
Trascorri giornate davvero speciali nelle stanze dove Ludovico Ariosto ha scritto l'Orlando furioso.
Lasciati incantare dalla visione di giardini segreti, archi in cotto ferrarese e arredi storici.




Infos and bookings


elisabetta.sgarbi@lanavediteseo.eu