The volume by Lucio Scardino (Forlì, Modulgrafica, 2024) retraces the history of “Villa Melchiori, the masterpiece of Ferrara Art Nouveau” and will be presented on Wednesday 8 May 2024, at 5pm, in the Agnelli room of the Ariostea municipal library (via Scienze 17 Ferrara) . They will talk about it with the author: Marcello Carrà and Marcello Bosi.
The meeting can also be followed live on the Archibiblio web YouTube channel.
The volume edited by Lucio Scardino comes out on the occasion of the 120 years of construction of the villa, unanimously considered the masterpiece of Art Nouveau in Ferrara, inaugurated on the new Viale Cavour, the connecting axis between the historic center and the railway station, in the summer of 1904 Designed by the engineer Ciro Contini and decorated on the façade with cement reliefs by the famous sculptor Arrigo Minerbi, the villa was the residence of an important floriculturist, who kept his shop here, together with the greenhouses. The book will therefore give importance both to the architect, with the drafting of a bio-critical profile, and to the Art Nouveau construction, but also to the surrounding garden, with the inclusion of texts by various specialists. In fact, the publication comes out on the occasion of the very recent structural restoration of the building, as well as the re-proposal of the garden, which stands on the area of the destroyed convent of San Gabriele.
Lucio Scardino was born in Ferrara in 1957 and since 1980 has organized retrospective exhibitions of artists working in the Po Valley area between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as publishing monographs on the artists. Among the texts most related to architecture: Ciro Contini, engineer and urban planner (1987), Vitale Vitali (1989), In the shadow of the poplars. Cemeteries in the Forese of Ferrara (1991), Adamo and Sesto Boari, Ferrara architects of the early 1900s (1995), Itineraries of modern Ferrara (1995). From 1986 to 2016 he directed the “Liberty house” publishing house, publishing 350 texts.
Direct link to the Archibiblio web YouTube channel with live broadcasts and the archive of recordings of the meetings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1_ahjDGRJ3MgG45Pxs90Bg
