Codice albumGBB-F-008891

Codice inventarioGBB-F-008891-0000

1929, ROMA, ITALY: Panoramic view of VILLA GIORGINA (Villa LEVI), Via Po n. 27, by architect Clemente Busiri-Vici. Built in 1922 by the very rich jewish industrial (hower of Aurora ink-penn factory and Zanichelli edition hause) and Senatore ISAIA Abramo Giacobbe LEVI (1863-1949) with his wife Nella Coen, Georgina was the name of the only one young daughter Georgina, dead 15 years older some years before. After the proclamation of Fascist Racial Laws over italian ebrews in 1938 the Villa Georgina was leased to Count Antonio BEZZI SCALI (1898-1988), brother-in-law of Guglielmo MARCONI, and his wife Maria Luisa" Mimise" DOTTI (1904-1986) (the marriage was canceled and in 1937 Mimise fell in love with the painter Renato Guttuso, marrying him in 1950).After the attack on Via Rasella (March 23, 1943) Villa Giorgina became a center of secret assistance to soldiers, patriots and Jews, with Monsignor SERGIO PIGNEDOLI (1910-1980) as a means of relations between the partisan Resistance and the Vatican. From the villa the refugees were secretly transported to convents and the Vatican territory. Isaia Levi, saving himself from the shoah in Vatican, in 1945 he converted to Catholicism and at his death, in 1949, gave the villa to Pope Pius XII. From 1959 Villa Giorgina became the headquarters of the APOSTOLIC NUNCIATURA (the Vatican Embassy on Italian territory). Villa Giorgina is back in the limelight at the end of October 2018 due to the discovery of the bones of two skeletons, buried under the floor of the house of the caretaker annexed to the Villa, scandalistically brought back to those of the two girls who disappeared in 1983: Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori.

Fotografo: Vasari

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