On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Luigi Guidi 1824-2024: a man of science and culture between Pesaro and United Italy, Friday 14 June at 6pm the State Archives of Pesaro Urbino welcomes the conversation with Riccardo Paolo Uguccioni by title Stories of the Risorgimento: the Carbonic Society in Pesaro. The event is part of the celebrations for the Bicentenary of Luigi Guidi and is promoted in collaboration with the Pesaro Society of Historical Studies.
There Carboneria it spread in the Apostolic Delegation of Urbino and Pesaro in the years after the Restoration; although disrupted by dozens of arrests, it created a background of liberal thought, which would then be the trigger for the subsequent Risorgimento events.
Above all remembered as the founder ofValerio Meteorological Observatory of Pesaro and for his agronomic studies, Luigi Guidi was a man of multifaceted talent and vast culture. Born on 11 May 1824 in Sant’Angelo in Lizzola (today Vallefoglia, Pesaro and Urbino) he received a humanistic education under the guidance, among others, of Giuseppe Ignazio Montanari and only around 1850, after having experienced exile and prison due to his liberal positions and his adherence to the Roman Republic (1848-1849), he systematically addressed naturalistic and scientific research. His participation in Risorgimento events it is documented by an interesting file of documents belonging to Luigi Guidi himself, once kept at the Valerio Observatory and sent to Rome in 1911 to be included in the archive of the “established Central Museum of the Risorgimento”. Eleven of these documents are now on display in the State Archives, borrowed for the occasion from the Institute for the History of the Italian Risorgimento.
The exhibition Luigi Guidi 1824-2024: a man of science and culture between Pesaro and United Italy allows you to admire it live five of the famous watercolors by Romolo Liverani depicting glimpses of Pesaro and the castle of Sant’Angelo in Lizzola in the 1850s. Finally, in the Scientific Instruments Section of the exhibition one can admire, exceptionally, some of the optical, meteorology, seismology and magnetism instruments, purchased and used by Guidi for his observations, temporarily transferred to the State Archives from the Valerio Observatory – Luigi Guidi Museum, which is currently closed for works.
The exhibition can be visited until June 21st.
Info State Archives of Pesaro Urbino 0721 31851
