The country villa of the Cardosi-Carrara family, located in the Caproni di Castelvecchio, is the accommodation that Giovanni Pascoli chose as his residence in 1895 and which he had been looking for for some time. The Poet came to the Serchio Valley, satisfied that he had found "a bicocca with a little vegetable and wood around it", brought his sister Maria and the dog Gulì with him. In Castelvecchio the Poet spent the most peaceful years of his existence, from 1895 to 1912, the year of his death. In this house the arrangement of Myricae (1903), the First Poems (1897), the Songs of Castelvecchio (1903), the Convivial Poems (1904) have seen the light. This period of great poetic production coincides with the official acknowledgments paid to Pascoli by critics, as an innovator of Italian poetry. The house preserves the structure, the furnishings, the layout of the spaces, which it had at the time of Giovanni Pascoli's death in Bologna on April 6th, 1912. After the poet's death, the building was declared a national monument, of particular public interest the area that includes the house. The archive holds around 76,000 papers and the library holds around 12,000 volumes.
Educational services
Guided tours
Users: schools, organized groups, associations, tourists etc.
The activities are free for schools in the territory of the Municipality of Barga
On reservation
Teaching activity
Users: elementary, middle and high schools in the municipality
Teaching Aids: cards, images
Method of implementation: a 2-hour meeting in the Casa Pascoli Museum for the presentation of the projects developed within the school environment
Place of performance: Museo Casa Pascoli
Period of development: from March to May
The activities are free for schools in the territory of the Municipality of Barga, for the others they are paid
Contacts
Guardian and guide Stefano Crudeli
tel – fax 0583 766147
e-mail Biblioteca@comunedibarga.it
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