Case della Memoria | Historic Homes Association

HISTORY

The Historic Homes Association "Case della Memoria" was officially founded in Prato on October 24, 2005, at the close of a long work process in which different subjects were surveyed for a project going by this same name. The project was promoted by the Region Tuscany and by Casa Boccaccio. The subjects of this research met and decided to create an association that would share goals and work methods.

It was precisely at the conclusion of this regional project, which identified 54 homes of public figures that have given luster to the Tuscan territories with their lives and works (see Regione Toscana website), that it was deemed necessary not to waste this experience of encounter and exchange between the various institutions and to follow the route of closer collaboration.

Members of the Association are the homes of Dante Alighieri (Firenze and Lunigiana), Piero Bargellini, Elisabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Lorenzo Bartolini, Sigfrido Bartolini, Raffaele Bedandi, Giovanni Boccaccio, Ferruccio Busoni, Giosuè Carducci (Santa Maria a Monte), Enrico Caruso, Benvenuto Cellini, Primo Conti, Francesco Datini, Leonardo da Vinci, Agnolo Firenzuola, Giotto, Francesco Guerrazzi, Nicolò Machiavelli, Indro Montanelli, Maria Montessori, Francesco Petrarca, Pontormo, Filippo Sassetti, Renato Serra, Leonetto Tintori, Villa Silvia Carducci. The seat of the Association is at Prato in “Casa Datini”, while “Casa Bocaccio” hosts the archive and documentation.

Thanks to the joint effort of the Association, of the Region Tuscany, of the City of Certaldo and of the National Giovanni Bocaccio Institute, a programmatic conference was organized for December 15, 2006 in the Certaldo Palazzo Pretorio by the name of “Historic Homes – alchemies of knowledge”. A day to meet and exchange experiences between cultural situations that are diverse, yet still united by similar aspects, commemorative homes extremely diversified by typology and characterized by the public figure who inhabited them, yet still linked by a life experience, by a strong tie with the surrounding territory making them part of the cultural, economic and anthropologic reality of the physical place in which they are located.

Inaddition to the representatives of the organizing associations, delegates from other organizations similar to ours in purpose took part in the meeting, such as the “Villas in Veneto” Association and the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
(brochure and leaflet PDF files)

In September 2008 our Association, become in the meanwhile ICOM member, organized in Tuscany the conference "Literary and Composers' Museums and Research" on behalf of ICLM (International Council of Museums - ICOM section which gathers literary and composers' museums). The event, which was a great success among the nearly 90 participants, gave the opportunity to establish new relationships with many European Homes



HISTORY The Historic Homes Association "Case della Memoria" was officially founded in Prato on October 24, 2005, at the close of a long work process in which different subjects were surveyed for a project going by this same name. The project was promoted by the Region Tuscany and by Casa Boccaccio. The subjects of this research met and decided to create an association that would share goals and work methods. It was precisely at the conclusion of this regional project, which identified 54 homes of public figures that have given luster to the Tuscan territories with their lives and works (see Regione Toscana website), that it was deemed necessary not to waste this experience of encounter and exchange between the various institutions and to follow the route of closer collaboration. Members of the Association are the homes of Dante Alighieri (Firenze and Lunigiana), Piero Bargellini, Elisabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Lorenzo Bartolini, Sigfrido Bartolini, Raffaele Bedandi, Giovanni Boccaccio, Ferruccio Busoni, Giosuè Carducci (Santa Maria a Monte), Enrico Caruso, Benvenuto Cellini, Primo Conti, Francesco Datini, Leonardo da Vinci, Agnolo Firenzuola, Giotto, Francesco Guerrazzi, Nicolò Machiavelli, Indro Montanelli, Maria Montessori, Francesco Petrarca, Pontormo, Filippo Sassetti, Renato Serra, Leonetto Tintori, Villa Silvia Carducci. The seat of the Association is at Prato in “Casa Datini”, while “Casa Bocaccio” hosts the archive and documentation. Thanks to the joint effort of the Association, of the Region Tuscany, of the City of Certaldo and of the National Giovanni Bocaccio Institute, a programmatic conference was organized for December 15, 2006 in the Certaldo Palazzo Pretorio by the name of “Historic Homes – alchemies of knowledge”. A day to meet and exchange experiences between cultural situations that are diverse, yet still united by similar aspects, commemorative homes extremely diversified by typology and characterized by the public figure who inhabited them, yet still linked by a life experience, by a strong tie with the surrounding territory making them part of the cultural, economic and anthropologic reality of the physical place in which they are located. Inaddition to the representatives of the organizing associations, delegates from other organizations similar to ours in purpose took part in the meeting, such as the “Villas in Veneto” Association and the International Council of Museums (ICOM). (brochure and leaflet PDF files) In September 2008 our Association, become in the meanwhile ICOM member, organized in Tuscany the conference "Literary and Composers' Museums and Research" on behalf of ICLM (International Council of Museums - ICOM section which gathers literary and composers' museums). The event, which was a great success among the nearly 90 participants, gave the opportunity to establish new relationships with many European Homes
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