The Villa Sola-Busca, also called ''Villa La Quieta'', is a Neoclassical style rural palace outside of the town of

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, on the shores of

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in the

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, Italy.

History

The villa was built by the Duchess of Carretto in the 17th-century, and then passed through the Brentano family to Gabrio Serbelloni in 1754, and then to his son, the Duke Giovanni Galeazzo Serbelloni. Under the Serbelloni ownership, the villa and the gardens were enlarged and refurbished in the present style. The architect in 1813 was Francesco Bernardini Ferrari. The central tympanum sports the heraldic symbols of the

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family. The interiors were stuccoed by Muzio Canzio and painted by Francesco Conegliani. The ceilings have frescoes and canvases with ''Scenes from the Aenid'' by Conegliani. The gardens surround the villa, which stands adjacent to Villa Albertoni. The villa hosted in the past the scholars

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and

Paolo Frisi Paolo Frisi (13 April 1728 – 22 November 1784) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer. Biography Frisi was born in Melegnano in 1728; his sibling Antonio Francesco, born in 1735, went on to be a historian. Frisi was educated at the lo ...

. The villa is privately owned.Lobardia Beni Culturali

References

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