On the street named after maestro Gaetano Donizetti stands the building where he spent his last days of life: Palazzo Scotti.
The rooms that housed Donizetti are located on the second floor and are frescoed with works by painters Camuzio and Bonomini in the neoclassical style.
The evidence of his life collected here was later donated to the Donizettiano Museum, especially the furnishings of his rooms such as the armchair, bed and blanket, and piano that the composer himself had purchased for the Basoni in Vienna in 1844.
There remain, as a reminder of Donizetti’s presence, a painting by Giuseppe Rilossi where Donizetti is portrayed dying, and a plaque, outside the building, with the inscription ‘Gaetano Donizetti – died in this house- on April 8, 1848.’
A curiosity: other illustrious Bergamasque figures were hosted in this palace, such as.
Giovanni Roncalli, later St. John XXIII, when as apostolic nuncio or cardinal of Venice he returned to his hometown.