il Gallo Silvestre

Il Gallo Silvestre– “The Great Wild Rooster” – is an experimental undertaking. Named after the poem by Giacomo Leopardi, considered the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century, our endeavor takes inspiration, as did the poet’s, from this magical landscape.

 

Here is the endeavor (or maybe it’s just a throw of the dice?): transplant a library into the countryside – on a high hill in the heart of some fine meadows, more or less halfway between the sea of Conero and the Sibylline mountains, a few kilometers from Recanati. (And where else could the Gallo Silvestre have possibly been born, if not in the seat and loci that were home to Giacomo Leopardi?). Monica is running this experiment, a mathematical physicist, yet with many years of experience of life and of work in the mountains.

 

The medium of this labour of love are the bookshelves containing several thousand printed volumes that Monica has collected and used over the years, divided into three main sections: literature (Italian and foreign), sciences (mathematics and physics), and philosophy (with a prevalence of texts in ancient philosophy, logic, and philosophy of science). The goal here is to transform her private collection into a real library, but not only. This experiment encompasses a reading room and a place for meetings, and also a framework for different kinds of events: book presentations, exhibitions, small conferences and workshops, lectures, seminars, readings.

 

For this proposition, on the boundaries of the library (or in fact, to be precise, above the library) are two suites – the one, of The Earth and the other, of The Moon – each with a private bath, and a spacious breakfast room, all of them also accessible by an independent entrance. There is room enough for six people, in a comfortable and spacious environment, perfect for reading, studying, writing, painting, or just for resting and see the sights, using the complex as a base for exploring the splendid territory of Le Marche.

 

The rooms have been designed and furnished with care, conceived to be at one and the same time extremely comfortable and aesthetically satisfying; breakfast too, different every day, is created according to the availability of the local producers with whom we work together and according to the wishes of our guests (as a general option we serve bread, sweets, and focaccia made by hand with sourdough; biscuits and bread sticks; daily fresh eggs; cold cuts, cheeses, honeys and homemade jams, besides a large selection of infusions and teas, all organic). Breakfast is served in the living next to the bedrooms, or in the garden, if requested and if weather permits.

In any case the garden is always accessible: you will find there, besides chairs, tables, and recliners, a large oak tree, two mulberries, two fig trees, numerous laurel plants, a mimosa, three or four maples and two linden trees, little fruit trees, tiny olive trees and a dense hedge of various plants, scattered flowers, wild herbs, and the cats: Dora, Cora, Pofi, CarloAzeglio, OscarLuigi, FTSEmib, Spigola, Brugola, Sentenza, FrancescoGiuseppe e Cosimo. Obviously there is free access to the fruit trees and the garden. I am happy to offer these services and products to my guest and appreciate the appreciation!

 

It is also possible to reserve the separate structure (Dora's Cottage), which is equipped with everything necessary, including its own garden. The first vision was to host small work-oriented groups that would need a quiet place for meetings (in this case the whole library hall is reserved for the whole period) or small groups of cyclists for example, who would have available a storage place for their bicycles (we are equipping ourselves soon with a small workshop), but the Gallo Silvestre is just as easily amenable to any and all who find the experiment interesting, for whatever purposes. So… I await you, and welcome!

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