In the year of Genoa as the Italian Capital of Books, Rolli Days flips through history

From October 13 to 15, 2023, Rolli Days will return in their fall edition. In the year that Genoa is the Italian Capital of Books, ancient and precious volumes will be the main theme of the long-awaited event held every year in the Ligurian capital.

Browsing History. Journey through the Palazzi dei Rolli: reading-related activities, starting with Palazzi di Genova by Pieter Paul Rubens, will accompany visitors through the ancient 16th-century mansions, where numerous volumes telling the story of the Genoese Palazzi, later named Palazzi dei Rolli by Ennio Poleggi, will be on display. In the halls of the noble Palazzi, richly decorated by some of the leading artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the two editions of the aforementioned Rubensian volume will be on display, with plates that allow us to reconstruct facades and rooms that have now changed over time, as well as the more modern eighteenth- and nineteenth-century volumes detailing the city’s imposing buildings. Among them is Martin Pierre Gauthier ’s volume entitled The Most Beautiful Buildings of the City of Genoa and its Surroundings, which also has an interesting graphic apparatus. As for the villa palaces that, during El Siglo de los Genoveses, housed the splendors of the ville for the city’s most important families, it will be possible to admire interesting graphic evidence, such as the 1886 volume by the German Robert Reinhardt, which also graphically testifies to the extraordinary uniqueness of the grottoes of Genoese gardens.

Genoese palaces also had grand libraries and collections of classical and contemporary volumes: they were often the main literary sources for the complex iconographic apparatuses that still represent the precious fresco decorations of loggias and salons. Cross-fertilizing with Genoa Capital of the Book 2023, Rolli Days will present invaluable volumes such as the Book of Hours known as Offiziolo Durazzo and a number of texts fundamental to telling the story of the Palaces and their priceless artistic and cultural value, displayed in precious antique editions.

As usual, the next edition of Rolli Days will not only open the doors of many ancient aristocratic residences in the historic center, a Unesco World Heritage Site since 2006, but also those of numerous suburban villas in the Ponente area that still characterize the neighborhoods of Sampierdarena, Cornigliano and Voltri. New for the fall 2023 edition will be the reopening of the splendid and newly restored Villa Centurione del Monastero, with its late 16th-century frescoes by Bernardo Castello.

Accompanying visitors, telling them about the history and art of the Palazzi dei Rolli and the villas, will be science popularizers as always.

Reservations are required for the visits.

All info: https://www.visitgenoa.it/rollidays-online/rolli-days/

This edition of Rolli Days is co-financed by the DOGE - Dimore dell’Ospitalità Genovese Europea project, financed by the Ministry of Tourism as part of the Valorisation of municipalities with a tourist-cultural vocation with UNESCO sites and UNESCO creative cities.

Image: Domenico Piola, Hall of Education - Palace of Gio Battista Centurione

In the year of Genoa as the Italian Capital of Books, Rolli Days flips through history

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