Guided Tour in the House of "Silvia" with Tasting

The home of Teresa Fattorini, "Silvia" in the famous song, is located on the second floor of the Leopardi Stables.
The building, restored and opened to the public in 2017, was built by Monaldo in 1796.
Originally on the ground floor it housed horses and carriages, and on the upper floors it gave accommodation to the so-called "famigli," the Leopardi's employees.
The latter continued to inhabit the building over the centuries, until twenty years ago.

The house where Teresa lived consists of several small rooms furnished with period furniture and furnishings, all from the palace. Thanks to nineteenth-century sources we have certain information about the Fattorini family members and their history, so it was not difficult to recover the rooms in a philologically correct manner. Of great help, too, was the discovery of the ancient wall paintwork, which made it possible to carefully restore the original colors of the interior and facades of the building.

Leopardi began to feel affection for Teresa in May 1818, when he learned that she was doomed to an early end. During his study hours, attracted by the singing of the young girl busy at the loom in the hovel opposite the Library, he would occasionally look out the windows to listen and watch her. Teresa died on September 30 of the same year, and Giacomo immortalized her in the famous poem written in Pisa ten years later, making her one of the most moving symbols of the illusions and hopes of youth.

The new tour itinerary offers visitors an unusual and entirely new perspective of this story: no longer Giacomo looking at "Silvia," but the Poet seen through the eyes of the young woman. The result is a journey into a hitherto little-explored world, between the gazes of the two boys and discovering the intimacy of the lives of the Leopardi "famigli".