Villa Mapelli Mozzi

45°42′08″N 9°34′41″E / 45.7021°N 9.5780°E / 45.7021; 9.5780

Panoramio of Villa Mapelli Mozzi

Villa Mapelli Mozzi, also known as Villa Mozzi or Villa Mapelli, is a large rural neoclassical-style palace in Locate Bergamasco, a frazione of Ponte San Pietro, which is located in the province of Bergamo, northern Italy.[1] The roots of the building date back to 1460, when the property with the castle was acquired by the family. From 1770, when it was built in this form, until today, the villa has been the property of the Italian noble family of Mapelli-Mozzi. With the back façade reaching almost 40 meters, the avant-corps and the lateral parts, it embodies one of the grandest neoclassical villas in the province.[2] Park of the Villa Mapelli Mozzi is accessible, while interiors of the villa are no longer open to visitors.[3]

History

Coat of Arms of the Counts Mapelli Mozzi (1913), consisted of combining Mapelli family arms (left) with Mozzi family arms (right)

The site originally held a castle, property of the Mozzi family, but the current villa was completed after 1770 by the count Enrico Mozzi.[4]

The architect is not known definitively, but it could have been a local architect, Giovanni Moroni. He might have had suggestions from Giuseppe Piermarini, since the design is similar to that of the Royal Villa of Monza, and the peaked roof recalls his design for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.[5]

In 1820, Conte D. Luigi Mozzi owned the "villa Mozzi, later Mapelli".[6] The Mozzi came from nearby Mozzo and were not related to the noble family of the same name from Florence.[7] In 1809, the Mozzi family joined the Mapelli family when Angela Mozzi, last descendant of the house, married the noble Girolamo Mapelli. The coats of arms of the two families were combined. Their son Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi married Ippolita Giulino of the Counts of Vialba. Their son Paolo married Enrichetta Tarsis in 1889, a descendant of an ancient noble family. By royal decree of March 13, 1913, and with letters patent of July 17, 1913, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy elevated the Mapelli Mozzi family into the hereditary title of count.[8]

The property remains in the possession of the Mapelli Mozzi family who also own the Villa Mapelli Mozzi located in Casatenovo, between Bergamo and Lake Como.[9][10]

Legacy

Arms of alliance of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and Princess Beatrice of York

The interior of the Ponte San Pietro building has a large staircase leading to a piano nobile frescoed by Vincenzo Angelo Orelli, Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini, and Agostino Comerio. The villa has long held the family's significant works of art, with Alex Mapelli Mozzi (b. 1951) – also of Ponte San Pietro[11] – working internationally as an art dealer and curator.[12][13] Alessandro was married to Nicola "Nikki" Diana Burrows, MBE (b. 1956) from Oxfordshire on 8 March 1978, paternal granddaughter of businessman and Liberal party politician Sir Robert Abraham Burrows and his wife, Lady Burrows (née Eleanor Doris Bainbridge), great-granddaughter of Bainbridge's founder Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge.[14][15][16][17][18] Their only son, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi is married to Princess Beatrice of York, member of the British Royal Family, elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York and granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II.[19] Their only daughter, Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi (b. 2021) is currently 10th in line of Succession to the British throne. Buckingham Palace has announced that Princess Beatrice is pregnant and the Mappeli Mozzi couple are preparing to welcome their new child in early spring of 2025, which will be 11th in line of Succession to the British throne.[20]

References

  1. ^ Jackman, R. (28 July 2020). "Princess Beatrice's new palazzo: The story behind the Mapelli Mozzis' family pile". Spectator (LIFE) - © 2020 Spectator (1828) Ltd. Retrieved 2 August 2020. The palace sits in Ponte San Pietro, a small town in the province of Bergamo, northern Italy. Around an hour's drive from Lake Como, it has reportedly been part of the family estate since the 13th century. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ "Villa Mapelli Mozzi". Promo Isola (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  3. ^ "Isola Bergamasca | Villa Mapelli Mozzi, il gigante addormentato". COSE DI BERGAMO | BLOG (in Italian). 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  4. ^ Saggi scientifici e letterari dell'Accademia di Padova. Accademia di Padova. 1794. p. xiv. Enrico Mozzi Patrizio Bergamasco, e Socio dell'Accademia Economico
  5. ^ Jackman, R. (28 July 2020). "Princess Beatrice's new palazzo: The story behind the Mapelli Mozzis' family pile". Spectator (LIFE) - © 2020 Spectator (1828) Ltd. Retrieved 2 August 2020. Documents suggest the palace was built by a local architect called Giovannie Moroni. But its similarities to well-known landmarks suggest Moroni may have taken his lead from a more famous architect – Giuseppe Piermarini, creator of Milan's celebrated opera house.......Both the Mapelli Mozzi palace and the Teatro alla Scala are notable for their stylish peaked roofs, which culminate in a decorated tympanum. In the case of the palace, an eagle – the old Mozzi coat of arms – sits at the top. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ Da Ponte, G. (1820). Dizionario odeporico, o sia storico-politiconaturale della ..., Volume 2. Mazzoleni, - Bergamo (Italy : Province). p. 146. Retrieved 29 September 2019. ...Sottoriva, apartenente alla villa Mozzi, ora (later) Mapelli,...conte san. D. Luigi Mozzi dispose varsi di pietra...
  7. ^ See: Italian article Mozzi (famiglia) on the patrician family of Florence, the marchesi Mozzi Del Garbo, who died out around 1880.
  8. ^ "Mapelli - EFL - Società Storica Lombarda". famiglie.societastoricalombarda.it. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  9. ^ Ceresoli, L. (7 May 2019). "The dream villa in Ponte San Pietro". Bergamo Post. Retrieved 29 September 2019. The Villa is privately owned and is still partly inhabited". Sergio Limonta, guide of Promoisola, also confirmed: "It is the residence of private individuals who do not accept sightseeing. I [once] took some schoolchildren to visit it with the consent of the kind and aristocratic Mrs. Legler, one of the property, unfortunately now disappeared and therefore the visits for the herds have closed. Her husband was a Mapelli, the last descendants....
  10. ^ Fontaine, N. (2019). Origins of the Mapelli Mozzi family: the noble ancestors and the title of Earl (Count) of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. Royales Histories. Retrieved 29 September 2019. (N.B. French to English translation) By the Italian Royal Decree of March 13, 1913, the King of Italy offered the Mapelli family a hereditary title. The male descendants all have the title of "Conte" (storytelling, in French).....The letters patent of July 17, 1913 add the name Mozzi to the title.....Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi is therefore count , like his father, as his grandfather ... and as his son, Count Christopher Woolf Mapelli Mozzi . However, since the abolition of the monarchy in Italy (in 1946), titles of nobility no longer have legal value. As for the United Kingdom, he can not recognize these titles of nobility either....As we have seen, the Mapelli Mozzi family belongs to a very old Lombard family , which still owns the sumptuous Villa Mapelli Mozzi located in Casatenovo , between Bergamo and Lake Como. The Mozzi family also owns Villa Mapelli Mozzi in Ponte San Pietro, built in 1770 by Count Enrico Mozzi. Edoardo also descends from the family of Tarsis but also Baroli . The great-grandfather of Edoardo, Count Luigi Mapelli Mozzi , also Knight of the Crown of Italy married in 1919, Nobile Maria Mercredes Baroli , descendant of the noble family of Baroli......
  11. ^ "Count Alex Mapelli Mozzi". Country Life. Vol. 163. TI Media. 1978. p. 507. of Mr David Burrows, of Pincents Farm, Theale, Berkshire, and of Mrs Susan Burrows, of 2 Walton Street, London, SW3, is to be married to Alex Mapelli Mozzi, only son of Count Gianpaulo Mapelli Mozzi, of Sottoriva, Ponte San Pietro....
  12. ^ Art de France, Issue 1. The University of California. 1961. Retrieved 29 September 2019. Ces décorations d'Ancy elles mêmes sont proches de « la Vénus et les Amours » (collection Mapelli Mozzi, Ponte san Pietro°).
  13. ^ "South African Digest". Department of Information, South Africa. 1980: 4. Retrieved 29 September 2018. Alex Mapelli Mozzi (left), the curator of the 143 drinking glasses (photgraphed) with Mr Jimmy Krugar President of the Senate {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. ^ "Sir Robert Abraham Burrows (1884-1964), Businessman". National Portrait Gallery (London). Retrieved 21 July 2020. Sir Robert Abraham Burrows is the father of Robert David Burrows whose daughter is Nicola Diana Burrows (b. 1956) who was appointed Member, Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) in 2016.
  15. ^ Davies, A. (2014). Locomotives of the Lancashire Central Coalfield: The Walkden Yard Connection. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781445635040. Retrieved 20 July 2020. (page viii)...the Duke of York occasionally staying with him [Burrows] at his Bonis Hall home in Prestbury, Cheshire
  16. ^ Ball, Elliot (21 September 2021). "Who is Princess Beatrice's husband? The story behind Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi". The Herald (Plymouth). Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  17. ^ Cite error: The named reference life was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  18. ^ Young, Sarah (26 September 2019). "Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi: Who is Princess Beatrice's fiancé?". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2019-09-26. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
    - Libro d'Oro della Nobilita Italiana. 2000–2004. p. 44.
  19. ^ Cope, Rebecca (2020-07-20). "Who are Princess Beatrice's in-laws?". Tatler. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  20. ^ "Princess Beatrice announces pregnancy with second child". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
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