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Bellagio - Melzi villa is to half road between Loppia and the Village, he was architect Giocondo Albertonelli has to plan villa (1806) on commisione of Francesco Melzi d' Eril. The villa was finished in 1810, but the system of the immense park and the furnishings of the rooms were necessary still some years for. The villa was set up with simple and strict neoclassiche lines, to the sobrietà of the outside they made contrast the precious decorations of the halls and the rooms. Inside the villa that delineates the work of Albertonelli mainly, with of the wonderful neoclassiche decorations that enrich every atmosphere of the building, beyond to the work of Albertonelli a stonecutter formation, upholsterers, painters, scultori, all of highest level participated to the realization of this capolavoro, between these we remember Alessandro Sanquirico whom he frescoed with Lombard landscapes knows it from lunch and that one to it of the billiards, while the others were frescoed from the Sinks, from the Arrigoni di Trivaglio. True capolavori they were guarded in the villa: two ritratti of Andrea Appiani, two burlaps of Van Dyck, celebre the Moretto of Rubens and a busto of Appiani. The garden was realized with great cure, levelling lands and creating small necks in order to make to seem the larger park of its real dimensions. The distribution of the vegetation, apparently natural, it was instead fruit of attention studies in order to increase the optical illusion of background and distances.
Stendhal wrote several pages on the villa; the pianista and composer Franz Liszt loved to stay in the park of Melzi Villa, in the moresco kiosk in river to the Lake Como and it was probably the statue of Dante and Beatrice to inspire his for the composition Sonata to Dante