{"id":1508,"date":"2018-07-11T15:46:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducacarloguarini.it\/abous-us\/la-storia\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:59:33","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ducacarloguarini.it\/en\/about-us\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Behind a glass of wine there is a world of human experiences<\/span>, within ours , there are those of a family that has a long history<\/span> and a strong bond with the territory.<\/p>\n

Imagine a palace dating back to the eighteenth century, with a \u201csecret\u201d garden<\/span>, fragrant with the scents of citrus fruit and grapes, under which there is a hypogeum dug out of the stone<\/span>, already used in the sixteenth century as an oil mill with seven presses and transformed into a \u2018barricaia\u2019, a cellar where the wines are now left to settle<\/span> in small and large oak casks and where the bottles of the different vintages are stored.<\/p>\n

The soft light creates an almost mystic atmosphere and if you go for a visit, the Guarinis, offering a good glass of wine<\/span>, will tell you that for them to be winemakers means having an inheritance to protect, land to cultivate, culture to share<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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We are a Norman family<\/span> arrived in Apulia in the Eleventh century and our knights have contributed, with the Hauteville<\/span>, to the conquest and the formation of the Kingdom of Sicily<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Ruggero Guarini<\/span> is the first in living memory. In 1065<\/span>, under the Count Goffredo D\u2019Hauteville, he brilliantly defended Lecce by the attack of Bohemond d\u2019Hauteville<\/span>, first son of Robert Guiscard, forcing him to free the town from the siege. Once the covenants changed, he departed with Bohemond to the first Crusade<\/span> in the Holy Land and came back victorious in 1106. After Ruggero, many representatives of our family had the honor to cover important roles in the Norman, Swabian, Angevin, Aragonese<\/span> and Bourbons<\/span> realms. There were many landowners, warriors, knights, admirals, clergymen, letters, legal, political and poets. There are memories of Accardo Earl of Valesio<\/span>, son of Robert, already owner of a vineyard<\/span> in 1114 and among other stories, that of St. Francis of Assisi<\/span> in 1219, who returning from his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, arrived in Lecce and two Guarini brothers<\/span> donated the Saint \u201cfew houses for him and his religious\u201d, as reported by the inscription still legible in the place, where, afterwards, was erected a Church entitled to San Francesco della Scarpa<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Under King Charles I of Anjou,in 1250, Pasquale <\/span>was Consul of the Sea in Brindisi and also admiral of the royal galleys of that city; another Pasquale<\/span> was Baron of San Cesario Caprarica, guardian of Mary of Enghien<\/span>, Countess of Lecce and Queen of Naples, whereas \u00a0his son Augustine<\/span>, who married Andronica Paleologo<\/span> in 1420, in 1455 received, \u00a0by the son of Maria d\u2019Enghien Gian Antonio Orsini<\/span>, Prince of Taranto, the fief of Poggiardo. \u00a0And then there is the beautiful story of Father Ignazio Guarini, a Jesuit, who in 1733 was sent by Pope Clement XI<\/span> in Dresden to teach the Catholic religion at the court of Frederick Augustus II<\/span>, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony: he taught French to Princess Maria Josefa<\/span>, who was intended as a bride to the dauphin of France, Louis Ferdinand<\/span> and was mother of Louis XVI.<\/p>\n

Ignazio also taught Italian to Princess Maria Amalia<\/span>, who became Queen of Naples<\/span>, wife of Charles III<\/span> of Spain and King of Naples. It is said that during his stay at court he was shot in an arm, probably in an attack hatched by the Queen Mother<\/span>, a fierce Lutheran<\/span>, who didn\u2019t\u00a0 tolerate her son conversion. Also because of her contacts at the Vatican, the art of the mosaic was introduced in the Polish court, a secret prerogative of the Opera di San Pietro<\/span>, a small thriller. Thanks to his familiarity with the King his nephew Federico Guarini<\/span>, son of the Duke of Poggiardo Ottaviano, \u00a0was appointed Captain of the Infantry regiment of the Earl of Bhr\u00fcl<\/span> in 1742. Ignazio <\/span>died in Dresden, just before his imminent appointment as Cardinal<\/span>. Over the centuries, more than 100 families<\/span> were related with ours, we administered more than 50 feuds in Terra d\u2019Otranto<\/span> and many famous people have been guests of our family, like Joseph Bonaparte<\/span> in 1807 and Joachim Murat<\/span>, King of Naples, guest in 1813<\/span> in the Palace of Lecce, where he left his signature engraved on a mirror, signature<\/span> that is reproduced on our wine dedicated to him, Mur\u00e0<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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