From 1754 Giuseppe Parini lived for nine years at Villa Sola Busca, also known as La Quiete, where he was tutor to the children of Duke Gabrio Serbelloni.
Villa Sola Busca, also called Villa Sola Cabiati or La Quiete, stands on the lakeshore at Bolvedro, in the municipality of Tremezzina. The Duchess del Carretto wanted it in the early years of the eighteenth century; it then passed to the Brentano, a cadet branch of the Grianta, and was then called Casa Grianta.
Passing to Duke Gabrio Serbelloni, in 1754 Giuseppe Parini arrived, called to educate the duke’s children, and for a short time the mathematician Paolo Frisi also stayed. Under Gian Galeazzo Serbelloni came the definitive Neoclassical transformation, which gave the villa its majestic but sober look; it remained a summer residence and a place of rest, hence the name La Quiete. With the marriage of Luisa Serbelloni and Marquis Lodovico Busca the villa passed to the Busca and then to the Sola Cabiati counts, their relatives after the wedding of Andrea Sola and Antonietta Busca (1871); by inheritance it has come to the present owners.
The central block, on three floors, opens onto two smaller wings with windows topped by curved pediments; the attic forms a large pediment bearing the family coat of arms. From the lake one lands at a jetty designed by Francesco Bernardino Ferrari in 1813, built on an older mooring. The Italian garden is laid out in four large flowered parterres; on the left a hedge separates it from the Neoclassical Villa Albertoni.
The present look of the main floor is due to the works commissioned by the Serbelloni, with stucco by Muzio Canzio, from the Val d’Intelvi, and work by Francesco Conegliani, of Tiepolo’s Milanese workshop, in the central hall, where six overdoor canvases show scenes from the Aeneid. The villa is private property and the sources consulted give no visiting arrangements.