The Bedroom

In this room, that originally housed the custodians, the Barrili’s bedroom was reconstructed by moving the original furniture that, at the time, was in the chamber located in the front part of the villa where the exhibitions are now set up.

Starting from the wall on the right side, on which there are two windows, we can find a display case containing the hats used by Barrili still perfectly preserved: the bowler hat, the top hat, two straw hats and his Rector’s headdress.

Proceeding with the visit, we can find, settled on a dressing table, a bottles series of perfumes, creams, hair dyes, combs and brushes. Some of these vanity objects are still packaged and mostly came from Paris.

In the umbrella-stand were placed the walking stick that Anton Giulio used in the last years of his life.

The Barrili’s wardrobe has been placed against the adjacent wall, in which the passage to another room opens. It contains various original items of his clothing as shirts with his initials, jackets, vests, shirt collars and so on.

Next to the bed there is a dresser where you can admire his pipes, tobacco and some cigars, in fact he was an eager smoker. Furthermore you can see the night table with a book and a postal letter, which he usually read in the evening before falling asleep, and his carpet slippers.

The hanging picture above the headboard of the bed is a reproduction that was hidden by a red cloth as it represents a scene containing nudity and could only be seen by men.

On the other side of the bed there is a bidet, an unusual sanitary item at that time.

In this room has also been rebuilt a kitchen area, where a table is set for one person; in fact story goes that Barrili right during his last supper, was taken ill and for this reason his nieces kept the last napkin used by their uncle.

Previously in this room was exposed a painting representing an angel that now is visible in the picture gallery of the Municipality of Carcare.

The round sofa in this room was originally placed in the entrance of Villa Maura.

From his original bedroom, Barrili could see the nearby Piarist College building (the current Liceo San Giuseppe Calasanzio), and even the class attended by his nephew, Pier Giulio Breschi who was the only son of his sister Enrichetta. She also had two daughters Maura, who inherited the name of her grandmother, and Laura, who later became a renowned painter.

The Barrili family was very wealthy, so that Pier Giulio, who had four children (three females and a male), gave his son Enrico the ownership of the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero.