Final evening | Tricentenario + 1725/2025

On November 12, 1661, Gio Gioseppe Piccini was born in the district of Nona (now a hamlet of the municipality of Vilminore di Scalve), where he was baptized in the Parish Church of the Nativity of Mary, served by parish priest Giovanni Silli. In the 1666 census, the village was called Annona, a toponym whose probable Latin origin refers to the presence, on site, of a supply warehouse intended for workers and laborers from the nearby Manina mines. In this context, the Piccini family was part of the Neighborhood Association of Nona, a district that at the time had about a hundred residents.

Final event of the program of initiatives for the three hundredth anniversary of his death

On Saturday, December 6th, at 8:30 pm, the Church of Vilminore will host an evening dedicated to the events that have accompanied the tercentenary of the death of the sculptor Giovanni Giuseppe Piccini and to preview those that will follow in 2026. In addition, Professor Chiara Spanio—author of the monograph Giovanni Giuseppe Piccini Sculptor—will give a talk on the great artist from Nona di Scalve.

The performances will be accompanied by the musical section led by maestros Lina Uinskyte (violin) and Marco Ruggeri (organ).