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The first records of this family date back to 1300. Originally from
Monte Petriolo and Cibottola, castles of the countryside of Perugia, it
had as its ancestor a Lemme, father of Cecco. Valerio di Cecco
transplanted the family to Perugia and obtained his citizenship on 6
April 1408. Bernardino Rossi, following his marriage to Angelica, the
only daughter of the Scotti counts of Perugia, inherited the name, the
title, the substances and the coat of arms ( 1655) and a Giovan
Battista, nephew of the previous, following the marriage with Countess
Vittoria Sozi, inherited the ancient fief of Baschi.
The family
is registered in the official list of Italian nobility with the titles
of counts of Montepetriolo, nobles of Perugia, nobles of the counts of
Montepetriolo. In the nineteenth century stand out the figures of the
poet Luigi, the writer and scholar Giovanni Battista and the painter
Lemmo (Perugia 1848 - Rome 1926)
Lemmo Rossi Scotti, son of
Gaspare, who had been a pupil and friend of T. Minardi, was trained at
the Accademia perugina under the guidance of S. Valeri, then he moved to
Rome to complete his training. He devoted himself to a very fruitful
production of paintings inspired by military themes of the Risorgimento,
supported by a uniformity of intonation and style, less present in tests
of another kind. Beginning with the episode of the Battle of Custoza,
which he presented in Milan and Rome in 1879 (Rome, National Gallery of
Modern Art), he participated in exhibitions with similar subjects,
treated with a convincing narrative style (General Kellerman's office at
Marengo, exhibited in Milan in 1887). He was also a good portrait
painter (The Prince of Naples, exhibited in London in 1888) and did not
neglect fresco painting (lunette in the Great Hall of the University of
Perugia) and landscape painting, to which he dedicated himself above all
to the Society " In Arte Libertas ", of which he was one of the
animators. The friendship with the protagonists of this group and with
the English painters linked to it favoured the creation of exchanges
between Rome and Perugia, where the artist periodically hosted friends
in his villa in Santa Petronilla.
See also:
• The
Douglases in Italy
•
Palazzo Rossi Scotti
Mescolini
•
Palazzo Rossi Scotti
• Villa Rossi
Scotti
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