Discover the villa where Alessandro Manzoni spent much of his childhood and adolescence, which today is the exhibition centre preserving the first editions, manuscripts and memorabilia of the writer's family, and much else besides. 

For information:
Direzione Musei phone +39 0341 481247/49 - Fax. +39 0341 369251
www.museilecco.org - segreteria.museo@comune.lecco.it 

The exhibition center of Villa Manzoni, renovated in November 2019, is a historical-literary route with various multimedia and interactive elements. The museum had been the mansion of the Manzoni family for two centuries. It was sold by the writer in 1818 to the Scola’s, who maintained it unchanged until the 1960s, when it was given to the Municipality of Lecco. Alessandro Manzoni spent his childhood and adolescence in this house. The Manzonian Museum, located on the ground floor, exhibits in 13 rooms paintings, first editions, manuscripts and memorabilia of the life and works of Alessandro Manzoni. Inside the various rooms you can observe eighteenth-century frescoes, personal objects of the writer such as the cradle and baptismal kit, his and family portraits, inkwells. The "grisaglie room" has been refurbished with original furniture, while room 6 displays a series of original editions of Manzoni's works. 

There is also a "Manzoni Pop" room where visitors can open display cases and chests of drawers with examples of Italian and foreign books, texts by researchers from the typography of Manzoni's Places, comics, postcards. The visit then continues between sections of the silent version of the film directed by Bonnard (1922) and posters narrating versions of The Betrothed and particular related
events, such as the Nun of Monza.

The chapel has been rearranged with various works of art and with documentation of Manzoni's funeral, set with the music of the Requiem composed by Verdi in homage to the great writer, after his death.

• Open on Tuesdays from 14:00 to 18:00; on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 to 13:00; on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 to 18:00.
• Closed on Mondays, and on main holidays (New Year’s Eve, 1st May, Christmas and 26th December).
• Last admission 1 hour before closing.

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