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Casa Carducci
Former deconsecrated church turned poet's home, its rooms preserving a Nobel laureate's forty-thousand-volume library.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Casa Carducci in Bologna follows the poet Giosue Carducci, who rented this former deconsecrated church in 1890 for shelf space as his library swelled toward forty thousand volumes. It traces his fondness for Dutch gin and lively table talk, then the 1899 stroke that froze half his face and slurred his speech without stopping him from dictating verses for eight more years. Queen Margherita later bought his entire library outright, so it still fills the rooms just beyond where you now stand.
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