THE MUSEUM

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Casa Manzoni is a historic palace in Milan, located on Via Morone at number 1 famous for being the home of the writer Alessandro Manzoni from 1814 until his death.It is a place of great charm that preserves on the upper floor the furnishings and clothes of the famous Lombard writer who wrote his literary masterpieces here, including The Betrothed.

The palace was until a few years ago the ground floor home of the Società Storica Lombarda (now housed by the Braidense National Library) and the National Center for Manzonian Studies. Today it is an interesting House Museum in which the interiors of the period are preserved, particularly Manzoni's study and bedroom. The museum tour, set up by Michele De Lucchi, offers a tour of Casa Manzoni in ten sections, which trace, through the furnishings and works of art displayed in the rooms, different itineraries in the writer's life and work. From the family to portraits, from the landscapes of the novel to his passion for botany, from friends to the writers who took him as a model, from the bedroom - left as he left it - to the study in which The Betrothed were born.

The palace also hosted meetings of the Il Conciliatore circle, while in the last years of the writer's life, the house hosted Cavour, Garibaldi and Giuseppe Verdi, who came to pay their respects. Visiting Casa del Manzoni is a journey into those years that made Italy a political and cultural nation.