Several Roman inscriptions have been found at the villa (1). Through the triumphal arch in terracotta, of the sixteenth century (restored in 1874 and 1933) you enter the avenue of the entrance of the villa. This belonged to the Malaguzzi family, of which Daria was the mother of Ludovico Ariosto. The poet stayed there for long periods and remembers it in verses 115-123 of the IV Satire (2). The complex was then bought by the Municipality of Reggio in 1864 and restored in 1933 (3). The original late-fifteenth-century nucleus (or at the limit of the beginning of the sixteenth century) can be identified in the three small rooms to the east (4). The central part corresponding in the facade, to the area of the four rectangular windows, appears a remaking of the eighteenth century (1742 c) in which, however, there are still traces of previous structures (5).The west wing was finally completely transformed by the restorations of 1933, 1940 and 1948 (6). In the first two rooms there are cycles of eighteenth-century paintings (7). The rooms to the east are all characterized by hanging capitals of late-fifteenth-century taste at the end of the sails and decorated with frescoes dating from 1567 to 1583 (although some tend to date back to the beginning of the sixteenth century the paintings of the lunettes and vaults) (8). The Camerino dei poeti bears around a frieze dated 1923;The Camerino dell'Ariosto has a stone fireplace, with Corinthian pilasters, bearing in the center the coat of arms in relief of the Malaguzzi and the date (apocryphal) of 1432 in memory of the year in which Valerio Valeri obtained from the Estensi investiture of the fief of Bazzarola (corresponding to the fund of St. Maurice, already owned by him); finally the Camerino degli Orazi and Curiazi, with a painting of 1567 and a brick fireplace with the coat of arms of Cardinal Rinaldo d'Este Bishop of Reggio in the mid-seventeenth century (9). In a rustic nearby remains a majesty, in the niche, dedicated to the Madonna.