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Name: Monument for Michelangelo Vittorio Carpi
Location: field 4, no. 81-83
Author: Giulio Branca (sculptor)
Construction date: 1917
Michelangelo Vittorio Carpi (1846-1917) was a famous opera singer born in Florence. Son of the member of Italian Parliament Leone Carpi, opposed to his professional choice, he worked in 1870 for seven hours a day for a year to learn singing and music from scratch and launched himself as a baritone. As an interpreter he was very successful internationally but was also a great teacher. He directed the vocal department of the Chicago Academy of Music from 1890 to 1898. He trained or influenced an entire generation of American singers.
He married Amalia Fano, daughter of the banker Angelo Fano from Mantua but born in Ancona, who is buried next to him.
The sculptor Giulio Branca (1850-1926), creator of the tomb of Giovanni Norsa, inserts a bronze bas-relief with a Renaissance musician playing the lyre. The epigraph says: “he excelled in the art of singing “.
