Friends of Naples is happy to be contributing to the project ”You are here Vico Pero / Giacomo Leopardi / Inhabiting Artist Project by Eugenio Giliberti” dedicated to the Romantic poet Giacomo Leopardi, and to Naples where he  resided the last years of his life. This public project is organised in collaboration with the National Center for Leopardian Studies (Recanati) by the following organisations: Donnaregina Foundation for Contemporary Arts – Madre Museum, Morra Foundation, Dafna Gallery and Intragallery, the National Library of Naples, the Municipality of Naples, the Third Municipality of Naples, the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, the departments of Architecture of the Federico II and Luigi Vanvitelli Universities, and the Naples ACEN Building Builders Association.

Giacomo Leopardi and his small court of his Neapolitan friends Antonio and Paolina Ranieri and the patriot chef Pasquale Ignarra, moved into Vico Pero between the 4^th and 9^th of May 1835. This was Leopardi’s last residence – his favorite – where he lived the longest of his three Neapolitan residences. Contrary to what many believe, it was in Giuseppe Ferrigni’s house in Vico Pero, and not in the villa of Torre del Greco, where Leopardi died of dropsy on June 14, 1837, while a terrible cholera epidemic was raging in the city.

Around this purpose the project unfolds in different moments, one of which saw the modest building at Vico Pero 2 transformed into an imposing artistic installation by Eugenio Giliberti that involved the entire façade of the building on Via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, crossed every day by hundreds of citizens and tourists heading to Capodimonte.