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MASSA CARRARA - In sunsets marine September, from Romanesque windows pink and orange light filters through the valley, mottled the old belief Renaissance runs on the coffered ceilings, track down the old jar of 'oil, ancient pottery, tablecloths seventeenth century, the cupboards never left the bedroom. Today it seems like yesterday, and the rooms of the house Piccianti, visitors to the event to have the impression Antona - fleeting and evanescent - to see and relive the legend of the summer holidays of Cibo-Malaspina. The village, Hookshot a handful of houses on a hill nestled among the 'Most High and Tambura, since 2006 has become a destination for art historians, historians, architects and lovers of archeology of the daily thanks to Christina Rossetti and her husband Marco Della Bianchina .

sixties, she Empoli, he Apuan, are heirs to what everyone in town called the old residence of the nobles of Lombard origin that still give glory to the province of Massa and Carrara. Since 2000, for adventure and pioneers who have begun to restore the old summer house at 400 meters' altitude in the old Roman settlement on the road that leads from Massa in the heart of the "Dolomites of Tuscany." A 'work painstaking recovery, cleaning and rediscovery of ancient objects, documents and precious furniture which have attracted tens of casual visitors.

"They came to the village fair, and they passed in front of the door asking me to visit it," says Rossetti. So the two tenants have begun to distribute leaflets and organize exhibitions. Diminishes the stone walls, the kitchen with the 'old basin for laundry where the clothes are washed with water and ash, the cellars with the old press for pressing of the olives or the tools for grazing and collection of chestnuts, small museum has already received the patronage of the Park of the Apuan Alps and could fall within the project's Houses of memory " Region: a map of 54 homes scattered through Tuscany, which among others includes the homes of Piero della Francesca, Michelangelo and Dante to Puccini and Carducci. "We can not say with certainty that era goes back - said the owner - the source further away in time is a letter dated 1600. Intestataa was an ancestor of my husband, the priest Angelo Andrea Della Bianchina, belonging to the Franciscans. The text has been examined by a specialist and said the sale of a land holding. "

More than a century photograph, Piccianti home ("so the people of the Della Bianchina Antona nicknamed ') recounts the course of time, the life of a small town and property unruly modernity. Almost pastoral. Car-free village, the people here still produce bacon and chestnut flour, cultivated vines and nostalgia of 'anarchy. Maybe that's why they love warehouses still dusty with the ladle the curds, crates for hay, dandelions fireplace, the yoke for the beasts, and instead grinning in front of the chest with strips of wool for babies and blue brocade bodices and gold for the small children of the Guelph dynasty.

Published Mario Blacks on Florence Republic (29/08/2009)