Villa Mosconi Bertani is also known to have been an important centre of Romanticism, through Italian poet and writer Ippolito Pindemonte, and also the cradle of Amarone wine.
Commissioned by the first owner of the estate, Giacomo Fattori, the construction of the entire complex —consisting of the central structure of the villa, the chapel and cellars— was originally designed by the architect Lodovico Perini and completed in the first half of the 18th century by the Veronese Adriano Cristofali.
The main building is three stories consisting of a central pavilion marked by a double row of columns, Tuscan order on the ground floor and Ionic on the upper level, a pediment containing the coat of arms (later added by Trezza), and topped with five statues of mythical Greek gods.
The Chamber of the Muses, also dedicated to small performances of opera buffa and later opera seria, where the two Mosconi coat-of-arms can be seen, is a three-story central hall, surrounded by a painted wooden balustrade which cuts the room into two stacked horizontal bands: The four seasons and the passage of time – a clear reference to the agricultural setting and purpose of the estate – are the main themes of the ceiling fresco.
Hovering over all in the foreground is Favonius, god of the favorable west wind, accompanied by playful angels, and in the background, one can just discern Apollo in his chariot.
English-style gardens began to appear – rolling landscapes, exotic plants, meandering paths, hidden corners with faux archaeological ruins – instead of the Italian style, which was predominantly green and ordered.
Following this trend, the brothers Giacomo and Guglielmo Mosconi reshaped the land behind the house, giving it two prominent features, a garden and a small wooded area.
The design of the park was suggested by poet Ippolito Pindemonte, who had been impressed by springs and fields he had seen while vacationing in France with close friend and host Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
The ample walled space, located directly behind the villa, encloses the grounds as well as an extensive Guyot vineyard, giving the entire landscape the feel of a country garden.
On the front side of the elegant villa, a gate marked by bossage pillars with gables and decorative vases encloses the courtyard and an anterior garden.
Its symmetrical shape is centered on a large, circular flowerbed, used for ornamental purposes and also to indicate the correct direction for incoming and outgoing carriages to the villa.
The playwright and prominent intellectual figure Ippolito Pindemonte lived at the villa for ten years as the guest of Countess Elisabetta Mosconi.
In one of his "Epistles in verse," written in 1800, he expressed his high regard for the Countess and villa thusly: "In your pleasant Novare I lived with you, kind Elisa, happy days;" A pleasant place to vacation indeed, by virtue in part of the lovely garden which Pindemonte mentions in this verse: "I saw the shadows of your garden, which seemed to me the most beautiful.” He added with unconcealed admiration for the wine: "But I look with even more yearning to these great noble barrels, whose oak senses and readily awaits the harvest."
It is the only surviving document in Verona containing a record of the advanced Guyot cultivation methods (in the walled "Brolo" area), the wine making equipment and 18th-century wine barrels (for the most part still preserved in the winery museum), and the ample acreage reserved for viticulture today making up a part of the Villa Mosconi Bertani Estate at that time named Cantine Trezza.