Gianluca Kannès

The article examines the construction events of the so-called rotonda di Inverigo, an aristocratic villa that Marquis Luigi Cagnola acquired by inheritance from the previous Caravaggio owners and subjected to a ‘radical’ renovation, transforming it from 1813 into a sort of manifesto and spiritual testament of his activity as an architect. Contrary to what has hitherto been believed, Cagnola came into possession of the villa not in 1813, but in 1794, albeit only formally because he left it for over fifteen years in usufruct to a relative of his...