Villa Mapelli Mozzi

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Villa Mapelli Mozzi
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Villa Mapelli Mozzi in 2010
Villa Mapelli Mozzi
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General information
Architectural style Neoclassical
Location Ponte San Pietro, Lombardy, Italy
Coordinates 45°42′08″N9°34′41″E / 45.7021°N 9.5780°E / 45.7021; 9.5780

Villa Mapelli Mozzi, also known as Villa Mozzi or Villa Mapelli, is an 18th-century neoclassical-style rural palace in Lombardy, northern Italy, which is situated at Sottoriva di Locate Bergamasco, a frazione outside Ponte San Pietro, in the province of Bergamo. [1]

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Owned by the family since 1460, the Villa Mapelli Mozzi is one of Lombardy's grandest neoclassical buildings. [2] The park is open to visitors, but not its interior. [3]

History

The Counts Mapelli Mozzi (cr. 1913) arms, impaling Mapelli (dexter) with Mozzi (sinister) Conte Mapelli Mozzi coat of arms.png
The Counts Mapelli Mozzi (cr. 1913) arms, impaling Mapelli (dexter) with Mozzi (sinister)

The original medieval fortified villa rustica came into a cadet branch of the Mozzi patrician family, through the marriage in 1460 between Giovanni Filippo Mozzi [4] and Caterina Comenduno. Having fallen into disrepair by the 17th century, their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson, Count Enrico Mozzi (1733–1800) who married Francesca Alamanni, renovated the estate between 1770 and 1780 with the construction of a new Palladian-style Villa Mozzi. [5] Its design, inspired by the Royal Villa of Monza and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, [6] is attributed to local architect, Giovanni Moroni, a follower of Giuseppe Piermarini.

Count Giovanni Battista Mozzi (1768–1813), [7] their elder surviving son, married in 1788 Angela Baglioni, daughter of Giovanni Paolo Baglioni (Podestà & Capitano of Chioggia); [8] the nuptial mass at Bergamo Cathedral was led by his uncle, Luigi Mozzi. [9] His first wife, Countess Angela, died in childbirth leaving an only child and heiress, Angela Mozzi (1790–1851) married in 1809 to Dott. Girolamo Mapelli (1785–1842), whose offspring assumed the surname and arms of Mapelli Mozzi.

Their son married Ippolita Giulini di Vialba (1827–1887) becoming jure uxoris Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi (1815–1879), [10] the father of Paolo Mapelli Mozzi (cr.Count Mapelli) whose wife was Enrica Tarsis (1866–1941), brother of Giampaolo Tarsis, I Conte di Castel d'Agogna (cr. 1927).

Created by Letters Patent in 1913 as a hereditary Count of the Kingdom of Italy with remainder to all male descendants, the Counts Mozzi were granted as an additional surname to the title by Regio Decreto in 1935, becoming formally styled as Count Mapelli Mozzi. [11]

The family estate also comprises another Villa Mapelli Mozzi located at Casatenovo, between Bergamo and Lake Como. [12] [13]

Legacy

Conjugal arms of Count Edo Mapelli Mozzi and Princess Beatrice Count Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi & Princess Beatrice, Countess Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Joint Coat of Arms.png
Conjugal arms of Count Edo Mapelli Mozzi and Princess Beatrice

The interior of the Ponte San Pietro villa comprises a large staircase leading to a piano nobile frescoed by Vincenzo Angelo Orelli, Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini, and Agostino Comerio. Stylistic enhancements to its late 18th-century design were overseen in 1927 by the architect, Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso. [14]

The Villa Mapelli Mozzi has long held the family's significant art collection, formerly curated by international art dealer Count Alex Mapelli Mozzi, [15] [16] whose daughter-in-law is Princess Beatrice. [17] [a]

Among the family's other notable descendants are Count Carlo Mapelli Mozzi (1889–1966) whose wife was Princess Beatrice Barberini (1906–1983), [24] and Marchesa Carmela Pallavicino née Mapelli Mozzi (1895–1947). [25]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jackman, Robert (28 July 2020). "Princess Beatrice's new palazzo: The story behind the Mapelli Mozzis' family pile". The Spectator. Spectator (LIFE) - © 2020 Spectator (1828) Ltd. Retrieved 2 August 2020. The palace sits in Ponte San Pietro, a small town in the province of Bergamo, northern Italy. Around an hour's drive from Lake Como, it has reportedly been part of the family estate since the 13th century.
  2. ↑ "Villa Mapelli Mozzi". Promo Isola (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  3. ↑ "Isola Bergamasca | Villa Mapelli Mozzi, il gigante addormentato". COSE DI BERGAMO | BLOG (in Italian). 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  4. ↑ See: Italian article Mozzi (famiglia) on the patrician family of Florence, the marchesi Mozzi del Garbo, who died out in 1879.
  5. ↑ Saggi scientifici e letterari dell'Accademia di Padova. Accademia di Padova. 1794. p. xiv. Enrico Mozzi Patrizio Bergamasco, e Socio dell'Accademia Economico
  6. ↑ Jackman, Robert (28 July 2020). "Princess Beatrice's new palazzo: The story behind the Mapelli Mozzis' family pile". The Spectator. Spectator (LIFE) - © 2020 Spectator (1828) Ltd. Retrieved 2 August 2020. Documents suggest the palace was built by a local architect called Giovanni Moroni. But its similarities to well-known landmarks suggest Moroni may have taken his lead from a more famous architect – Giuseppe Piermarini, creator of Milan's celebrated opera house.......Both the Mapelli Mozzi palace and the Teatro alla Scala are notable for their stylish peaked roofs, which culminate in a decorated tympanum. In the case of the palace, an eagle – the old Mozzi coat of arms – sits at the top.
  7. ↑ www.societastoricalombarda.it
  8. ↑ www.regione.veneto.it
  9. ↑ Da Ponte, Giorgio Maironi (1820). Dizionario odeporico, o sia storico-politiconaturale della ..., Volume 2. Mazzoleni, - Bergamo (Italy : Province). p. 146. Retrieved 29 September 2019. ...Sottoriva, apartenente alla villa Mozzi, ora Mapelli,... conte don Luigi Mozzi dispose varsi di pietra...
  10. ↑ "Mapelli - EFL - Società Storica Lombarda". www.famiglie.societastoricalombarda.it. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  11. ↑ Libro d'Oro della Nobilta Italiana, M-Z (22 vol. XXVI ed.). Rome: Collegio araldico. 2000–2004. pp. 44–45. Retrieved 1 October 2019. [Translated from Italian to English] – The title of Conte [Co.] was created in 1913 in the Kingdom of Italy by King Vittorio Emmanuele III to all male descendants bearing the surname and arms of Mozzi combined with the family of Mapelli ... *Mozzi (Mapelli-Mozzi) ... Co. Alessandro, n. 17 luglio 1951 sp. 18 marzo 1978 Niky Burrows da cui: (a) Natalia, n. a Londra 28 agosto 1981; (b) Co. Edoardo, n. a Londra 19 novembre 1983
  12. ↑ Ceresoli, Laura (7 May 2019). "The dream villa in Ponte San Pietro". Bergamo Post. Retrieved 29 September 2019. The Villa is privately owned and is still partly inhabited". Sergio Limonta, guide of Promoisola, also confirmed: "It is the residence of private individuals who do not accept sightseeing. I [once] took some schoolchildren to visit it with the consent of the kind and aristocratic Mrs. Legler, owner of the property, unfortunately now deceased and therefore the visits for the masses have finished. Her husband was a Mapelli, the last descendants....
  13. ↑ Fontaine, Nicolas (2019). Origins of the Mapelli Mozzi family: the noble ancestors and the title of Count Mapelli Mozzi. Histoires Royales. Retrieved 29 September 2019. (N.B. French to English translation) By Italian Royal Decree of March 13, 1913, the King of Italy granted the Mapelli family a hereditary title. The male descendants all have the title of "Conte"..... Letters Patent in 1935 added the name Mozzi to the title..... Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi is therefore a Count, like his father and grandfather. However, since the abolition of the Italian monarchy (in 1946), titles of nobility no longer have legal value. The Mapelli Mozzi family belongs to a very old Lombard family, which still owns the sumptuous Villa Mapelli Mozzi located at Casatenovo, between Bergamo and Lake Como. The Mozzi family also owns Villa Mapelli Mozzi at Ponte San Pietro, built in the 1770s by Count Enrico Mozzi.
  14. ↑ www.moma.org
  15. ↑ Art de France, Issue 1. The University of California. 1961. Retrieved 29 September 2019. Ces décorations d'Ancy elles mêmes sont proches de « la Vénus et les Amours » (Collection Mapelli Mozzi, Ponte San Pietro°).
  16. ↑ "South African Digest". South African Digest. Department of Information, RSA: 4. 1980. Retrieved 29 September 2018. Alex Mapelli Mozzi (left), curator of the 143 drinking glasses (photographed) with Mr Jimmy Kruger, President of the Senate
  17. ↑ "Count Alex Mapelli Mozzi". Country Life . Vol. 163. TI Media. 1978. p. 507. daughter of Mr David Burrows, of Pincent's Farm, Theale, Berkshire, and of Mrs Susan Burrows, of 2 Walton Street, London SW3, is to be married to Count Alex Mapelli Mozzi, only son of Count Giampaulo Mapelli Mozzi, of Sottoriva, Ponte San Pietro....
  18. ↑ "Sir Robert Abraham Burrows (1884-1964),". National Portrait Gallery (London). Retrieved 21 July 2020. Sir Robert Burrows is the father of (Robert) David Burrows whose daughter is Nicola Diana Burrows (b. 1956), appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) in 2016.
  19. ↑ Davies, Alan (2014). Locomotives of the Lancashire Central Coalfield: The Walkden Yard Connection. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN   9781445635040 . Retrieved 20 July 2020. (page viii)...the Duke of York occasionally staying with him [Burrows] at his Bonis Hall home in Prestbury, Cheshire
  20. ↑ Ball, Elliot (21 September 2021). "Who is Princess Beatrice's husband? The story behind Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi". The Herald (Plymouth) . Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  21. ↑ Young, Sarah (26 September 2019). "Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi: Who is Princess Beatrice's fiancé?" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 2019-09-26. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
    - Libro d'Oro della Nobilta Italiana. 2000–2004. p. 44.
  22. ↑ Cope, Rebecca (2020-07-20). "Who are Princess Beatrice's in-laws?". Tatler. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  23. ↑ "Princess Beatrice announces pregnancy with second child". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  24. ↑ www.aboutartonline.com
  25. ↑ www.senato.it

Note

  1. ↑ Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi was married to Nicola "Nikki" Diana Burrows, MBE (b. 1956) from Oxfordshire on 8 March 1978, paternal granddaughter of Sir Robert Burrows and his wife, Lady Burrows (née Eleanor Doris Bainbridge), great-granddaughter of Bainbridge's founder Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge. [18] [19] [20] [21] Their only son, Count Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi is married to Princess Beatrice, a member of the British Royal Family, elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York and granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, [22] whose elder daughter, Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi (b. 2021) is currently 10th in the line of succession to the British throne, while their younger daughter, Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi (b. 2025) is 11th in line to the throne. [23]
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