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Balbiano then passed into the hands of Carlo Gallio. As we read engraved on an eighteenth-century plaque at the villa, it was Carlo, Marchese of Isola, who continued construction. Another plaque, also from the eighteenth century, says that in 1680, the Marchese Giacomo Gallo celebrated completion of the building, which he had enriched with fine stuccowork and elaborate
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Hartlaub. He was the one to initiate the first restoration work. Balbiano was bought by Michele Canepa, an industrialist in the silk business, in 1982. He beautified the gardens with new species of trees and flowers, some of which are quite rare. Ownership changed again in 2011. The modernization of the villa was entrusted to the French interior architect
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mill. In the twentieth century the property was broken up. The land to the west was sold, and in the 1930s the building housing the spinning mill was destroyed. In 1940, the parapet and gate on the lake side collapsed into the lake. In 1960, the villa changed hands once again: the new owner was a
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In 1637, the owner was Marco Gallio. When he died, on August 13, 1638, the four outer walls of the villa with their gneiss (serizzo) plinth course and most of the partition walls on the three floors had been built, but the finishing work had not been done. Only the cornice had been built for the
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Bertolucci and Maria Fratelli. Novecento sul lago di Como. Pittura tra acque e monti. Milan: Editore Nexo, 2013. RIZZINI, Marialuisa. “Note sul collezionismo seicentesco: la famiglia Gallio di Como,” Arte Lombarda. Milan: Vita e Pensiero,
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Scaramellini. Il Balbiano: un palazzo a Ossuccio. Una dimora dei Gallio sul lago di Como sorta su magni che rovine cinquecentesche. Como: Enzo Pifferi Editore, 2012.
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After several changes of ownership, in 1872 the villa was purchased by an industrialist in textiles, Gustave
Salomon Gessner, who expanded the buildings and installed a
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Adalberto, cur. I magistri comacini nella storia e per lo sviluppo del Lago di Como e della Valle d’Intelvi. Milan: Libri Scheiwiller, 2006.
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Pliniana di Torno: storia di una villa e di un mito sul lago di Como. Como: Alessandro Dominioni Editore, 2010.
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to guide the boats (the lighthouse collapsed in the nineteenth century). In a panoramic position atop a
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