Saturday 11 May, at 10.30 amis inaugurated at the headquarters of the State Archives, the show Luigi Guidi 1824-2024. A man of science and culture between Pesaro and united Italywhich will remain open until June 21, 2024. This is the culmination event of the celebrations for the Bicentenary of Luigi Guidi (S. Angelo in Lizzola (PU), 1824-Pesaro, 1883).
The exhibition, which opens in conjunction with the 200th anniversary of Guidi’s birth, is an opportunity to rediscover the multifaceted figure of Luigi Guidi, patriot, scientist, agronomist, meteorologist, teacher, very active in Pesaro at the time of the birth of Guidi. new Italian state.
Guidi left an important legacy to the city of Pesaro, theValerio Observatorya scientific institute of great value and history, still operating and included in the World Meteorological Organization network since 2018.
In the Scientific Instruments Section The exhibition will include optical, meteorology, seismology and magnetism instruments, purchased and used by Guidi for his observations, temporarily transferred to the State Archives from the Valerio Luigi Guidi Museum Observatory, currently closed for work.
There Documentary section instead it offers a reconstruction of Guidi’s biographical journey, from his birth and early years in S. Angelo in Lizzola, to his studies, participation in the Risorgimento struggles and the story of the Roman Republic, the experience – significant and decisive – as a partner and professor of Agriculture at the Agricultural Academy in Pesaro, up to the decisive role played by Guidi for the city in the period of the government of the Royal Extraordinary Commissioner for the provinces of the Marche Lorenzo Valerio, who granted to Pesaro thanks to Guidi’s offices, the Technical Institute and , above all, the funds for the erection of the meteorological observatory.
It will be an opportunity to admire documents coming from the main archives of the territory, but also from prestigious institutes of national importance, such as the Institute for the history of the Italian Risorgimento in Rome, which preserves an unpublished file dedicated to the patriot Luigi Guidi, and the Library A. Saffi of Forlì who granted the exhibition five original watercolors by Romolo Liverani depicting Pesaro and Sant’ Angelo in Lizzola from Guidi’s era.
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