Fedele Fischetti and the Gallery of the Casino of Carditello

The estate of Carditello and its Royal "Casino" is considered one of the most beautiful and architecturally refined "Royal Delights" made by King Ferdinando of Borbone House. Much loved by the king, he commissioned - from the spring of 1784 - the creation of comfortable rurals needed to housing the animals, processing the products, and homing his staff. From 1787, the work began on building up the small "Casino" designed by Francesco Collecini. Fully furnished, the Real Site made a display of beautiful curtains, a rich art gallery and a multitude of books, as documented by the first inventory of the site, drawn up immediately after its completion in 1792. In the official documents called Amministrazione di Carditello e Calvi - Conti e Cautele ( Administration Carditello and Calvi - Accounts and Cautions), preserved in the archives of the Royal Palace of Caserta, there are various proves that attests as to the payments of works done at the apartment of the king in "Cardito" by Fedele Fischetti, and thanks to them we have reconstructed the existence - in the gallery Casino - of works by the Neapolitan Fischetti. The Gallery of the Casino Carditello, the main hall of the building was commissioned and meant as the more opulent and rich space in the apartment where Fedele Fischetti frescoed the vault, drew the preparatory models of tapestries and perhaps prepared the designs for the magnificent and expensive furniture of French production.