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Abbot Giuseppe Barbieri<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25px”][vc_column_text]Giuseppe Barbieri was born in Bassano on 26 December 1774 and spent his childhood along the banks of the Brenta between the “laughing hills” and the pleasant valleys. He moved to Padua and attended the faculty of theology and law<\/strong>, he was the favorite pupil of Cesarotti. In 1795 he wore the habit of St. Benedict in the monastery of Praglia<\/strong> located on the hills that, as “guests” and “confidants” of the poet\u2019s intellect, were celebrated by him in the poem I Colli Euganei. He was commissioned to teach “humanity and rhetoric”<\/strong> in the college annexed to the abbey. In this period there were frequent meetings with Cesarotti who lived in Selvazzano, not far from Praglia. In 1808 the Barbieri obtained a teaching position at the University of Padua<\/strong> and left the cloistered life, too rigid and tiring for his poor health. After 1813, Giuseppe Barbieri, passionately in love with nature, silence and solitude, chose as his home “the dear villa…” which was the ideal place to appreciate them in their full expression.[\/vc_column_text][\/qode_elements_holder_item][\/qode_elements_holder][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1550256397435{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column][qode_elements_holder number_of_columns=”one_column”][qode_elements_holder_item advanced_animations=”no” item_padding=”30px 0px 70px 0px” item_padding_600_768=”0px 0px 50px 0px” item_padding_480_600=”0px 0px 50px 0px” item_padding_480=”10px 0px 50px 0px” custom_class=”barbieri”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>…The Poets
\nLove free days, tranquil hours,
\nQuiet retreats, they love hills and valleys,
\nThe murmur of streams, the whispered breezes,
\nThe rustling of leaves; they love the sky and the earth
\nTo enjoy openly, and in Nature’s embrace
\nListen to Nature’s mysterious senses.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]This is how he describes the choice of Torreglia and his retreat to the Poggio della Mira, in one of his letters to Isabella Albrizzi<\/strong>, collected with others in “Opere”<\/strong> (1821) and written precisely when the silence is heavier and the voices of the night suggest intimate feelings and deeper thoughts. And again, in a letter to Regina Abriani Borromeo<\/strong>:[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

\u201c…On the other hand, this blessed fertility of Padua,
\nthese leafy and vigorous plantations, these luxuriant furrows of cereal wealth,
\nthis succulent greenness and brownness of meadows, this gravity, if I may say so,
\nof the Euganean nature,
\nhas a certain I don’t know what of melancholy and epic that deeply moves me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”55px”][vc_column_text]Between 1818 and 1819 he hosted in his retreat Niccol\u00f2 Tommaseo<\/strong>, famous Italian linguist, writer and patriot, who defined the place “Vatum Locus” (place of poets), and kidnapped by the beauty of the place wrote “Tauriliae descriptio”, poem in Latin hexameters:[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

\u201c…Not far from the Euganean city, there is a beautiful place:
\nonce it was sea; then, to spew flames, the waters disappeared:
\nbehold the hills rise, behold them arrange themselves in an amphitheater and cover themselves with vegetation of all kinds.
\nOne among these shines more brightly and houses within it, beautiful
\nin its simplicity. Wise one, here you can study nature.
\nFrom here, speaker, you can contemplate the little house where was born
\nhe who plucked such a splendid crown from the Latin foliage.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”35px”][vc_column_text]Giuseppe Barbieri died on 9 November 1852. At his request, he was buried in Torreglia<\/strong> in the places \u201c…where he had fixed his nest and enclosed his heart…”: in the old parish church of San Sabino<\/strong>, \u201c…placed in a delightful place facing the rising sun…” just a few steps from his villa.[\/vc_column_text][\/qode_elements_holder_item][\/qode_elements_holder][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1550256397435{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column][qode_elements_holder number_of_columns=”one_column”][qode_elements_holder_item advanced_animations=”no” item_padding=”50px 0px 70px 0px” item_padding_600_768=”0px 0px 50px 0px” item_padding_480_600=”0px 0px 50px 0px” item_padding_480=”20px 0px 50px 0px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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