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Two new monographic volumes have become part of the series dedicated to the sculptures active in the Monumental Cemetery of Verona: “Gli Spazzi. Una lunga dinastia di artisti 1380-1936” and “Mario Salazzari. Opere pubbliche e per la memoria”.

The volume dedicated to the Spazzi dynasty, of which Camilla Bertoni is the author, tells the human and artistic events of the original family of the Como Val d’Intelvi and active in Verona from the early nineteenth century until 1936. In particular, Giovanni, Grazioso, Attilio and Carlo Spazzi were among the protagonists of the artistic history of the city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and authors of many works in the Venetian capital and in the Monumental Cemetery of Verona.

Edited by Camilla Bertoni and with the contributions of Maddalena Basso and Gabriella Bologna, the second monograph focuses on the life of Mario Salazzari, originally from Lugagnano di Sona. Author of numerous monuments to the fallen in Verona and its province and of works related to the celebration of the dead inside the Monumental Cemetery of Verona, he was a multifaceted artist and he also dedicated himself to small-format sculptural production, drawing, painting and poetry .

Both volumes can be purchased in the Lamberti Tower ticket office and during guided tours; they are also on sale in the main online bookstores.

Works, drawings and sketches for the first time collected in a reasoned catalog: fifty years after the death of the Milanese artist, the story of Ruperto Banterle is told through the materials kept in the family home in Gombion.

From the years before the Great War until the post-war reconstruction period of the 1950s, the volume focuses on the life and works of the sculptor in the background of Verona, the city where Banterle moved in 1912 to rejoin the family and where he met the poet Lionello Fiumi, point of reference for artists and writers from whose friendship was born his most famous work, the Anelito fuggente (Fleeing soul), preserved in the Monumental Cemetery of Verona.

The book, edited by Camilla Bertoni, can be purchased at the Lamberti Tower ticket office and during guided tours; it is also sold online in the following bookstores:

• Hoepli
• Mondadori Store
• Ibs
• Libreria universitaria
• Feltrinelli
• Amazon

The Monumental Cemetery of Verona becomes social with the new Facebook page.

Curiosities and anecdotes related to the monuments, artists and protagonists of the history of Verona that rest in the cemetery, but also information on guided tours and all organized activities: with the most used social network in the world the Monumental Cemetery is just at your smartphone!

“Il Cimitero Monumentale di Verona”, the complete guide to the Verona graveyard by Maddalena Basso and Camilla Bertoni, is available.

The volume will accompany you through the works of the Monumental Cemetery to the discovery of an unexpected museum: the more than one hundred detailed cards tell the stories of the protagonists of the nineteenth and twentieth century city history, but also the events of those who simply lived in Verona, leaving a trail in one’s earthly affections. A real journey that starts from the history of Verona and its sculpture between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and continues along the colonnades and the central avenue of the Cimitero Barbieri, the highest expression of the Veronese artistic nineteenth century, among the monuments of the Cimitero Nuovo, built starting from the early twentieth century, up to the chapels of the Cimitero Giardino.

The book can be purchased at the Lamberti Tower ticket office and during guided tours; it is also sold online in the following bookstores:

• Hoepli
• Ibs
• Libreria universitaria
• Feltrinelli
• Amazon

The Monumental Cemetery of Verona is finally available on ARtour, the innovative smartphone app developed by ASCE, the association that brings together the most important cemeteries of Europe.
The application, downloadable free from the App Store and Google Play, offers both in Italian and English, a complete and detailed guide of the cemetery that can also be consulted offline, allowing users to plan, according to their interests, customised tours to discover the artistic wonders of the cemetery.
The app shows the main points of interest of the Monumental Cemetery of Verona and each of them is precisely geo-localised to be easily identified within the burial ground: a perfect tool for a first visit to discover the hidden treasures of what is a real open-air museum.
This initiative has been possible thanks to collaboration with ASCE – Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe, the non-profit association that AGEC has been part of for several years, gathering in a single network all the public and private companies involved in the care of the most interesting European cemeteries for historical or artistic reasons.