Illustrious Personalities
During the three centuries of its existence, Villa Rezzonico Borella, has had numerous illustrious
personalities as its guests; artists, politicians, musicians, poets who have made the history of Italy and of Europe.
Napoleon Bonaparte and General Massena stayed during the Italian Campaign. In July 1797, the Congress of Bassano,
which represented the extreme attempt to join the Veneto to the Cisalpine Republic, was held at the Villa.
Besides the architects painters and sculptors that built and decorated it, such as Canova and Quarenghi,
there are numerous other famous guests, personalities of the Italian Risorgimento, such as Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro
Manzoni, Antonio Fogazzaro, Giosuè Carducci, Daniele Manin, Federico Gonfalonieri, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Urbano Rattazzi,
Francesco Crispi, Giovanni Giolitti, as well as Hans von Bülow, Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, John Riskin
and Francesca Alexander.