Articles

Following the occupation of the City by the Napoleonic troops in 1801, the “Charterhouse of San Girolamo” was converted into a cemetery area; today’s structure is located on the vestiges of an ancient Etruscan necropolis and is counted among Italy’s oldest monumental cemeteries. The Charterhouse was founded in the fourteenth century alongside the church of San Girolamo, consecrated in 1359, and still retains a significant heritage of art works. After the conversion of the religious complex into a cemetery area, with several interventions carried out according to the characteristics of pre-existing buildings, the piece of land around the Renaissance cloisters was used to expand the burial area, thus creating a charming and monumentally significant articulation of spaces. Particularly significant is the Cloister number seven, home to the tomb of the Marconi family and to such art works as the “Montanari” Monument by Diego Sarti, the portrait of the blacksmith Gaetano Simoli by Tullo Golfarelli, and the monuments dedicated to the ceramist Angelo Minghetti and the publisher Nicola Zanichelli. What is more, the monuments dedicated to Raffaele Bisteghi by Enrico Barberi, and - near the Charterhouse street entrance (Via della Certosa) the tombs of Giosuè Carducci, Giorgio Morandi and Lucio Dalla, are also well worth a mention.