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1901
Giuseppe Verdi: Giuseppe Verdi by Ferdinand Mulnier BW
Giuseppe Verdi. Ferdinand Mulnier. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
Died
27 January 1901
Place
Milan · Italy
Field
opera composer · Music on the timeline
Legal tradition
Italian civil law (Tribunale di Parma; Cassazione; TAR) · Civil law
Historical event
Italian unification; the Viva Verdi fundraising campaign by 14 opera foundations
Religion
Giuseppe Verdi: Catholic (recorded as Roman Catholic on Wikidata)
Member of
Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Académie des beaux-arts, Historical Right (Wikidata)
Music and sportIndustry and empireEuropeItaly

Giuseppe Verdi's villa was closed by a Parma court in 2022 over an heirs' fight, then taken by the state for about 7.6 million euros against a 30 million appraisal

Verdi bought the Sant'Agata villa in 1848 and lived there from 1851 until his death. It passed to his younger cousin Maria Filomena Verdi, and later to the Carrara Verdi family. After Alberto Carrara Verdi died in 2001, the Cassazione ruled his estate must be divided equally among his four children: Maria Mercedes, Ludovica, Angiolo and Emanuela, who died in 2020. None could buy out the others. The Tribunale di Parma ordered a sale. The villa closed to the public on 1 November 2022. In 2023 the culture ministry set aside 20 million euros to use the state's right of first refusal. An expert valued the property and its contents at about 30 million euros. In May 2024 the ministry declared public utility, and on 16 December 2024 it signed an expropriation decree offering 7,609,000 euros. Lawyer Fabio Mezzadri, heir of Emanuela, accepted for himself and Ludovica. Maria Mercedes and Angiolo had not decided. By December 2025 the indemnity dispute was still open and some heirs had announced legal action. The state took possession in February 2025. In 2026 no ruling by the TAR, the regional administrative court, was found†.

What the law took from it

Property left equally to children who cannot afford to buy each other out ends in a forced sale, and a decision-making structure in the will avoids it.

Sources
  1. quotidiano.netPress
  2. cremonasera.itPress
  3. lavocedinewyork.comPress
  4. ilrestodelcarlino.itPress
  5. wantedinrome.comPress

Cite as: celebrity.estate, “Giuseppe Verdi's villa was closed by a Parma court in 2022 over an heirs' fight, then taken by the state for about 7.6 million euros against a 30 million appraisal,” story s1910, https://www.celebrity.estate/giuseppe-verdi-1901, updated 30 October 2026.

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