Auction for Casino dell'Aurora still deserted. Princess Ludovisi: blame the website.

In Rome, the auction for the Casino dell’Aurora, the splendid seventeenth-century building named after Guercino’s fresco and home to Caravaggio’s only known wall painting, is deserted for the third time. It had already been proposed in January, with an estimate of 471 million (although according to many this was not a correct estimate) and a base set at 353 million 250 thousand euros: both the first and second auctions (the latter with a discount to 282 million 600 thousand euros) were deserted. This time the minimum bid was reduced to 226 million euros, but again no buyer showed up.

Now the judge will decide whether to suspend the sale, or to put Casino up for auction for a fourth time, with a further reduction. According to the Times, Princess Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi (American, née Carpenter), widow of Prince Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi, blames the new failure on the court’s decision to hold the auction on a website specializing in bankruptcy sales, which this week offered, among other items, “used cars,” the British newspaper says, “the furnishings of a disused bowling alley in a resort on the Adriatic, and a 31-euro floor lamp. According to Rita Carpenter, there was a potential U.S. buyer, but he was put off by the shoddy site. ”In New York, we would never do something like that," she told the Times. “I know what it takes to sell a multimillion-dollar property, such as finding qualified bidders and handling the advertising. Nobody knew about the auction, and I’m shocked.”

What will happen next? Also according to the Times, it appears that Rita Carpenter is trying to make peace with the prince’s children (the auction of the Aurora Casino stems from family issues), and that there are negotiations to get the building back from the court. We will see the next developments.

Auction for Casino dell'Aurora still deserted. Princess Ludovisi: blame the website.

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