Loggia della Casa del Cardinale - Ettore Roesler Franz. La Fortuna benevolent, or incidental urban cases, they also wanted time to hand down the view roesleriana in the actual reality of the present. In reality a much improved against the watercolor. The suburban villa, the "little house" that ii Cardinal Bessarion (John from Trabzon) is built on the Via di Porta S. Sebastiano, just after the junction with Via di Porta Latina. Not far from the Porta Appia, but still within the walls.

In this small view, and in the House, are condensed five centuries of history, politics, religious, cultural events, alternations of costume. Bessarion, as the Greek voile rename, was the star of the fifteenth century the Roman Empire and Europe. He defended the West, fought for the preservation of Greek culture, participated in the Councils of Ferrara and Florence. His famous library, gathering in a house on SS. Apostles. Now those codes form the pride of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.

In Rome, he left his tomb, which he built in life in the Basilica of SS. Apostles, but his name remains primarily bound to this delightful home country. A low building with an open airy, cozy, depending on delicate, almost unnoticed transition from inside to outside. An interior enriched with pictorial decorations, while others sgraffito decoration marked the facade harmoniously.
Dead ii Bessarion, in 1472, passed from time to time to other owners, always welcomed new guests. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was chosen as a summer residence for students, both Italian and foreign, of the Noble Pontifical College Clementino, Rome. But below had to undergo many other living conditions. Accommodation peasants, teamsters, and as a result, some areas turned into store garlic, onions, tomatoes. Perhaps in this state Roesler Franz saw and drew the Casina. With the tools of the farm work left in the open, even with a beggar at the door.



At the beginning of the century, Hans Barth, singer and chronicler of the Italian inns, from Verona to Capri, welcomed the review of those places also popular Osteria Bessarione. "Decorated with beautiful frescoes of the Renaissance. Charming lodge where you drink it religiously in honor of the Cardinal, who was the founder of the house. In the small courtyard," he added, "an old mill." A restoration is required, but will need to get to 1934 to see it realized. A radical renovation that raised ii precious fourteenth-century building to attain representative for the City of Rome. Before then, the Casina it appeared so shabby that Adolfo Pernier, creator of that intervention will not hesitate to declare that only a few reliefs of the "Students of Architecture" and the watercolor of Roesler Franz could allow "the exact restoration of scale and the beautiful outdoor decor, a fresh, lodge, which were entirely lost. "For the Roman painter, almost a decoration on the field.