09 - Villa Isola

The Metauro river surrounds the villa making it almost an island

Not isolated but protected by the vegetation and by fertile waters: Torquato Tasso must had conceived it that way, when he came in 1578. In 1559 Annibale Caro found hospitality there. He counted on the protection of the Della Rovere and he found hospitality in the house of his ancient fellow, Federico Bonaventura. The house represents a place of continuity with the Urbinate court, of which the Bonaventura family was an estimate mouthpiece, but also the place where to find rest from the hurries and anxieties that more and more gripped the poet. 

Nature and culture intersect with harmony and the Ode makes evident a spontaneous process of marriage between the landscape and the autobiography of the great poet. 

Villa Isola represents the ideal starting point and the real place of arrival after a reading of the territory of Fermignano from the point of view of the literary writing.

Villa Isola, in the shadow of the torricini of the Ducal palace of Urbino, connects to the small house in ruins built by Girolamo Genga in the Ducal Barchetto in Pesaro, where the poet stayed when he was young.

Places of nature, of soul and of literature of which the Province is full of.