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A Jacobite Gazetteer - Italy
Asti - Fondazione 'Centro di Studi Alfieriani' |
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The town of Asti, located about thirty miles east of Turin. At Corso Alfieri, 375, is located the Fondazione 'Centro di Studi Alfieriani', a foundation devoted to the town's most famous son, Count Vittorio Alfieri. The headquarters of the foundation include a museum in which hangs a portrait of Queen Louise (wife of King Charles III). The painting is by Edouard Marsal and is based upon the portrait by François-Xavier Fabre now in the Uffizi. 1 The museum also displays a painting by François-Xavier Fabre of Oedipus on Mount Citheron; the dog in the picture is "Pirro", Queen Louise's pet. 2 Pyrrhus also appears in a painting by Fabre now in the museum of the Musée Fabre in Montpellier. Website: www.fondazionealfieri.it. Telephone: 39.141.53.82.84. Notes 1 "Centro Nazionale di Studi Alfieriani", http://www.fondazionealfieri.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=56. 2 "Biblioteca e Museo Alfieriano", http://provincia.asti.it/ente/alfieri/BiblioMus.htm. |
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