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Casa Coraggio is one of the historic buildings of the city of Bordighera in Liguria. Built with stones, the 19th Century building is located at the 34 of Via Vittorio Veneto. ==History== While the exact date of construction is unknown, we know that during the period going from 1879 to 1902, the Villa was inhabited by the Scottish writer George MacDonald. Mac Donald had two daughters, Lilith and Grace, both of whom where sick with tuberculosis. Doctors had advised him to move them to a location with a dry and kind climate in order to improve the chances of recovery. Bordighera, having become famous thanks to the recently publicized novel “Il Dottor Antonio” by Giovanni Ruffini, was chosen as a perfect place to relocate.,.〔(Casa Coraggio in “Eva Gore-Booth: An image of such politics", by Sonja Tiernan 2012 )〕〔(Casa Coraggio in “George MacDonald: Victorian Mythmaker" by Rolland Hein, Wipf & Stock Publshers 1993 )〕 MacDonald went to live there with his family in the big Villa in Via Vittorio Veneto. The vast living room could host as much as two hundred people, and it rapidly became a centre of the British community and the intellectual groups that resided in the area. MacDonald organised several entertainments like concerts and theatrical representations, every Wednesday he presented and read aloud the verses of the best British poets of the time.〔(A visit to Casa Coraggio on MacDonald’s page )〕 All of this made his house an important cultural building in the city and it was named “Casa Coraggio” (House courage) as a tribute to George MacDonald’s motto: “Corage! God mend al”.”,.〔(George MacDonald in Bordighera on the Bicknell’s blog )〕〔(Life and death of Edmondo De Amicis on Bordighera’s portal – ''In Italian'' )〕 After MacDonald died, the house was sold and transformed into the hotel “Hôtel de la Reine”, which was chose by Edmondo De Amicis as a winter residence because of its’ historical links to MacDonald. De Amicis even wrote one of his “Pagine spiritose” on Bordighera, calling it the “Englishman’s paradise” (1903). Bordighera was also the place in which De Amicis died on 11 March 1908 due to a cerebral haemorrhage.〔(The death of De Amicis – ''in Italian'' )〕 After WWII put an end to British and German tourism in Bordighera the hotel went into a severe crisis from which it never recovered. It later closed and was transformed into an apartment block, on the façade one can see memorial plaques that remember both George MacDonald and Edmondo De Amicis〔(History of Via Vittorio Veneto – ''in Italian'' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Casa Coraggio, Bordighera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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