The country house, where leading opera composer Giuseppe Verdi lived for 50 years, is being sold, ending a long-running dispute between his heirs, according to the Guardian.
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, creator of "Aida" and "La Traviata," built the "Villa Verdi" in 1848 on privately owned land in Sant'Agata di Villanova, a hamlet near his hometown of Buscetto.
Initially inhabited by his parents and then moved himself in 1851, with his second wife, Giusepina Streponi, where he lived until his death in 1901.
It then passed into the possession of four brothers, descendants of Maria Filomena Verdi, the Italian composer's youngest cousin, whom he and Streponi raised as their own daughter.
However, in recent years the heirs have been in constant conflict over how to manage the house with none of the four brothers having the financial means to buy out the others' share.
Since 2010, the villa - which partly functions as a museum - has been managed by Angelo Carara Verdi.
"We are very sorry," Carara Verdi told local newspaper Libertà.
He added: "It was only a matter of time. We couldn't find an agreement and the villa has this unpleasant ending."
According to Carara Verdi, the composer wanted the house to remain lively and inhabited.
"I respect the wishes of the conductor. I hope that whoever buys it in the future will treat it in the same way, as a home. It cannot simply become a cold museum," he noted.
Verdi had two children with his first wife, Margherita Barrecci, however both died a few years later.
Source: APB
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