This number of Ferrara. Voci di una città contains a series of articles that propose an image of the city linked to its most illustrious families - as is the case with the article by Gaetano Tumiati - as well as one connected with the rediscovery of its most evocative and secret corners - as is the case with James Rosen's piece. Along with these…

Commemorates the renowned Tumiati brothers - Domenico, Gualtiero, Leopoldo and Corrado - and Francesco, awarded a posthumous Gold Medal for valour. Since last September there has been a new addition to the many plaques - some most beautiful - that adorn the walls of Ferrara in memory of famous people and memorable events: the new one has been mounted on the façade of a dignified…

«Beneath her veil and beyond the stream, she seemed more to me to surpass her ancient self... than to surpass others when she was ancient self.» (Dante) Ferrara is not about effects - laborious effects hastily collected and negligently scattered by idle minds. In some instances, like the frescoes of June and July in the Palazzo Schifanoia, works have suffered more from solicitude than neglect.…

Ferrara commemorates one of its greatest artists with an extraordinary monographic exhibition. On the 1st of April 1606, three people were at prayer in the Duomo of Faenza, when a painting, the first to be seen on entering the nave from the right, attracted their attention. After having observed it, one of the three, the famous painter Pomarancio, said he did not know who had…

The Roman question and Giacomo Cassani's views on religious reform. Ferrarese by birth and by the fact of his never having left his native province, as early as the middle of the Nineteenth century, Father Giacomo Cassani was speaking out in favour of the national "revolution" and declaring himself a supporter of conciliation between the Church and the political classes. At the Clementino Seminary in…

An influential figure in the politics and economics of the most difficult decades of this century. The encounter between Cini and Volpi took place in the field of public services: infrastructures, energy, transport. Both men's careers had begun in the early years of the century and both enjoyed their first successes when Italy was going through a phase of economic development just before the Great…

A colossal architectural project whose real strategic purpose has never been examined until now. Along the course of the Po in the second half of the 16th century many large, high quality construction sites were being opened: small cities, aristocratic settlements, well supplied strongholds on or close to the banks of the river. These Italian "low countries" witnessed a proliferation of construction projects, promoted by…

As the Fondazione plans the restoration of this extraordinary work, we are reprinting one of the most important texts on this topic. Thus we come to the Last Judgement in the vault of the apse of Ferrara Cathedral: Filippi's greatest work. With regard to dating I cannot argue with the terms established incontrovertibly by Cittadella. Filippi, better known as Il Bastianino, committed himself to producing…

«The will to set off towards a future that can draw its vital energy only from the past.» The solemn celebrations in commemoration of the one hundred and sixtieth anniversary of the foundation of the Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara assume a symbolic value on the eve of the new millennium, at a time in which the banking sector is going through a process of…

The Governor of the Bank of Italy's speech on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the Cassa di Risparmio. The greatest wealth of this region, of this city, lies in its enormous cultural and artistic inheritance and its noble civil traditions. These values are the cornerstone of an ordered economic life and of the participation in it of all the citizens. Ferrara and its…

The celebrations on the occasion of the first centenary of the foundation of the Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara. On the 16th of June 1938, senator Pietro Niccolini, then Chairman of the Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara, chose for the bank's centenary celebrations the renovated boardroom in corso Giovecca in preference to the Este castle, palazzo dei Diamanti, palazzo Schifanoia or the palace of Ludovico…

Anche la città di Ferrara è bella, Ferrara "la civile" come la chiamano gli italiani, ma sembra piuttosto meritare l'epiteto di "solenne", tanto maestosi sono i suoi edifici, tanto larghe e uniformi le sue strade. La mia penna stava giusto per lodare anche la pulizia della città, ma ho riflettuto che non c'era nessuno per sporcarla.Ho cercato per mezz'ora prima di poter trovare un accattone,…

Ferrara. Voci di una cittàRivista semestrale di cultura, informazione e attualitàAnno 5, numero 9 - Dicembre 1998Registrata presso il Tribunale di Ferrara il 9 novembre 1994 con il numero 13/94Spedizione in abbonamento postale e. 20/c, art. 2, l. 662/96Edizione fuori commercio, riservata ai soci e agli amici della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara