Villa Clerici Triklinea (Malpigli a Loppeglia sulle Alpi Apuane)

Count Leonardo A.C. Clerici presents the Villa with its porticoes and 16th-century halls in the Apuan Alps region near Lucca. The proposed visit
is structured along two axes:
1. A visit to the library of unique and rare editions of the great movement
founded by F.T. Marinetti, Futurism, with editions and magazines of all the
poetic and avant-garde movements of the last three centuries. In the
foreground hall is the library of rare and unique 16th-century works, ranging from
Petrarch to Ariosto and Tasso, to Roman Platonic and Stoic philology, to the corpus
of Erasmus’s theology, and to the controversies surrounding Bayle’s great Dictionary
(1697), which summarizes all the knowledge published in Italy and France before
German scholastic systematic philosophy, an important collection of all the
works of Islamic theology and philosophy from the great areas of the
Iranian, Turkish, and Arab worlds of Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean.
In the large hall known as Etruria, you’ll find Clerici household furniture
from China, 16th-century tapestries, furniture inspired by
Piranesi, and the large polychrome marble cosmic table with the bronze symbol of
fortune. In the same hall, you can admire the large
clock, a gift to General Beauharnais from Emperor Napoleon
Bonaparte on the occasion of the birth of the Kingdom of Italy. This monumental
clock with centaurs and carillon is a work from the upper Ticino Valley in
Lombardy and has been part of the Clerici household for over two centuries. Other
symbolic objects, such as the golden imperial eagle of Roman Zeus, contemporary with the
1805 Bonapartist clock, testify to the Roman and Mediterranean dimension of the
Clerici family, whose ancestors trace their lineage back to the Dukes of Visconti and Sforza.
2- Illustration of the frescoes by a pupil of Michelangelo Buonarroti, dated
1594, with scenes from Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem and figures of Mercury and
Juno with astral positions from the Roman-Italian Platonic tradition.
Climbing the staircase of the adjoining apartments, you can access and visit
the FTM Muse, a large hall dedicated to iconic objects, banners, and Islamic furniture from
Alexandria, Egypt, a portrait by FTMarinetti, aeropainting, the
mystical animal of the mirage from Medina to Jerusalem, Al Axa, and the Baga Serpent from
Marinetti’s African novel. Wooden works on the courts of love in China and
Japan, and paintings and graphics by Sironi, D’Annunzio united in celebrating
the drum mule by sculptor Pietro Canonica celebrated by Marinetti in
his works, the Quranic tablets for memorizing the divine word, the Russian
icon with ocean pearls on silver metal, the Futurist manifesto, and
the flags of Fiume and the 1942 Russian front at Kerbala… the
tabuluth museum instrument built by Count Clerici in the spirit of gnosis and the
grammar of essences in the Platonic and Stoic traditions, and in the demiurgic
aerial painting of FTMarinetti. The Hall of the FTM Muse is frescoed with the coats of arms
of the Este-Gonzaga family, created in 1594 by the nobleman Malpigli, creator
of the Academy of the Dark Ones (Coruscant Accens, I darken by lighting the burning coals). The villa is surrounded by rustic, Arcadian gardens that reflect
the Georgian simplicity of our Tuscan, Italian, Roman, and Arab poets.
The tour will last two hours. Count Clerici will illustrate every object, room, and poetics of his home, remaining available for seminars or private meetings for in-depth
study at the villa.