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Samedi 1 juin, 10h30Passat
Junh 2024
Dissabte 1
10:30 - 13:00

Giardino Gradenigo

Santa Croce, 764, 30135 Venezia VE
  • Venezia
  • Veneto

The garden of love by Eleonora Duse and Gabriele D'Annunzio

Opening with guided tour
Samedi 1 juin, 10h30Passat
© Palazzo Gradenigo

At the end of the nineteenth century Gabriele D'Annunzio set in the Gradenigo garden his Venetian novel "The fire" making it the place of love meetings between the protagonists Stelio and Foscarina, a young man who has a relationship with a much older woman, or the poet and actress Eleonora Duse, whose death centenary is being celebrated this year. The Vate represents himself in an impudent transposition of the love that tied him to the most revolutionary actress that our stages have ever had. In the garden their love is consumed, thanks to the sight of the "jeweled pomegranate, shimmering under the firmament". The writer dedicates intense words to this fruit still present in the Gradenigo Garden. We will read passages from the novel and tell the story of the garden that also saw the presence of a giant of cinema, James Ivory, Under the Pergola of Wisteria The American director has written by hand the screenplay for the film _Call me with your name _Who won the Oscar.

Types of events
Guided tour
2024 Theme
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Conditions for participation
Free entrance
Type of audience
General public

À propos du lieu

Giardino Gradenigo
Santa Croce, 764, 30135 Venezia VE
  • Venezia
  • Veneto
The garden of Palazzo Gradenigo in rio Marin was one of the most extensive gardens in Venice. It survived intact until the twenties of the last century, and was largely expropriated for the construction of a district for railwaymen. Built together with the palace in the second half of the sixteenth century, it grew gradually new spaces until reaching the peak of fame in the late '700 when there were hunts to bulls (memorable one of 1767) and at the beginning '800 with the feasts in honor of Eugene of Beauharnais, guest of Bartolomeo Gradenigo podestà of Venice. At the time the vast space had to be considered an extension cultivated with greenery and brolo rather than a garden designed, since there was a "cavalizza" containing up to thirty horses with lots of stables still traceable in the Napoleonic land registry. From the same cadastre it is inferred that the monumental gate adorned with statues, currently placed on the branch of the Chioverette, was originally located near the Grand
Etiquetas
Apertura straordinaria, Giardino storico formale
Accès
Full address: Sestiere Santa Croce, 764, 767, 768/ Fondamenta Rio Marin, Venezia (VE)
Palazzo Gradenigo