Rearrangement of Giacomo Matteotti's birthplace in Fratta Polesine for the centenary of his assassination

The house where Giacomo Matteotti was born in Fratta Polesine, in the province of Rovigo, will be refurbished and undergo an overall rethinking of the visit route, on the occasion of the centenary of his assassination on June 10, 1924. The intervention is promoted and supported by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, in agreement with the Municipality of Fratta Polesine and the Accademia dei Concordi of Rovigo, which now owns the historic building, recognized as a National Monument.

The design of the new face of the Giacomo Matteotti House Museum is entrusted to the architectural firm 120grammi, while the rethinking and updating of the narrative path is by Luca Molinari Studio, a team led by Professor Luca Molinari, professor of Theory and Design of Architecture at the Second University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli,” with the historical supervision of Professor Giampaolo Romanato, chairman of the House Museum’s Scientific Committee.

The House Museum includes a tour that begins on the ground floor, with the kitchen, dining room, and study-library. Alongside the simple household furniture, the rearrangement will develop in these rooms the story of the Polesine that Matteotti knew as a boy. On the second floor, with the bedrooms, the family library, the piano and the space dedicated to music, it will be intended to revive the ties and passions of a cultured family, capable of weaving important relationships, even from this corner of Polesine, by virtue of illustrious relatives such as that with baritone Titta Ruffo, Matteotti’s brother-in-law. Once up on the second floor, the evocative power of private accounts will make way for the images and voices of Matteotti’s public affair andantifascist legacy in the present time.

The House Museum space is intended to offer itself as a place for reflection on Italy, represented at one of the most critical moments in its history, and as a powerful reading of Giacomo Matteotti’s central role in contemporary Italian history. In the new itinerary, special attention will be paid to the garden of the house, which will be the place of introduction to the museum visit, but also a space for reflection and study, as the public can stop here to read books and texts available inside.

Ideally, the route extends beyond the perimeter of the House Museum into the small village of Fratta Polesine. No less than three historic villas are reflected in the river overlooked by the garden of Casa Matteotti: Villa Badoer, a 16th-century masterpiece by Palladio; Villa Avezzù, an elegant Venetian mansion; and the Villa dei Carbonari, where one of the first nuclei of the Italian Carboneria was formed.

The House-Museum will therefore be closed to the public from Feb. 5 until the work is completed.

For info: www.casamuseogiacomomatteotti.it

Rearrangement of Giacomo Matteotti's birthplace in Fratta Polesine for the centenary of his assassination

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