Amarcord Ferrara

Synopsis

Collection of period photographs of places, people and curiosities that made Ferrara a city dense with history, accompanied page by page by a rich caption of facts now shrouded in oblivion. How can we not give space to Biagio Rossetti, the genius architect who made Ferrara the most modern city in the world; the Castello Estense, Palazzo Diamanti, the Duomo, Piazza Ariostea, the Monumental Aqueduct and the imposing Walls?

Again, how can we forget Lodovico Ariosto immortal poet and father of the Italian language; Giorgio Byron who lived in the city, author of the drama of Hugh and Parisina; Girolamo Savonarola, opponent of Lorenzo de'Medici and Pope Borja; Paolina Pepoli Mosti who made Garibaldi enamored, granddaughter of Joachim Murat, King of Naples; Lyda Borrelli, undisputed star of silent films, muse of Salvator Dali and wife of Ferrara-born Vittorio Cini, Minister of Communications during the Fascist twentieth century, later interned in Dachau; Marie Waldmann, world-renowned mezzo-soprano, favorite of G. Verdi and patroness of the city; Ercole Trotti Mosti founder of the Italian Radical Party; Italo Balbo, young republican, Mussolini's protégé, to whom we owe the birth of agrarian fascism; Mimì Quilici Buzzacchi, her husband Nello and son Folco; Achille Funi, Arrigo Minerbi and many others.