Located on the ground floor of the Palazzo Agostini, the Ussero is an historical cafe of the eighteenth century.
The cafe - in the nineteenth century also known as "Cafe of the Rooms" for connecting the top floor with the circle of the Civic Rooms (founded in 1818) and "Cafe of the Union" - hosted the first meeting of the Italian Congress of Scientists in 1839.
Its walls are covered with memories of his illustrious visitors : Filippo Mazzei (the Italian suggested that one of the amendments of the U.S. Constitution: the pursuit of happiness), Francesco Domenico Guerazzi, Antonio Guadagnoli , Giuseppe Giusti (that made him famous in his Memoirs of Pisa), Renato Fucini, Henry Panzacchi, Giosuè Carducci (the first Italian winner of a Nobel Prize), Cesare Abba, Giuseppe Montanelli, Alessandro D' Ancona (former editor of the newspaper "La Nazione"), Bino Sanminiatelli and many other characters such as Paolo Mascagni, Charles Didier (who set his novel Chavornay), Giovanni Battista Niccolini, Peter Bastogi Bombrini Carlo, Pietro Gori, Enrico Ferri, Giovanni Gentile, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, LippariniI Joseph , Louis Puccianti , Titta Ruffo , Curzio Malaparte, Ezra Pound, John Gronkowski, Mario Tobin, Mario Praz, Giovanni Spadolini, Enzo Carli, Indro Montanelli, Tiziano Terzani, Renata Tebaldi, Luigi Comencini, Arnoldo Foa, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Antonio Tabucchi, Roman Battle .
The name of the maker, reported already in a lease of 1799 , comes from "Ussero", Tuscan and literary variant of "Ussaro" (ie "Horseman", military part of a unit of light cavalry).
Seized by the U.S. Army in 1944, it was reopened as a coffe-tobacco shop in 1945 with the name "Usserino" in the adjacent lane Tidi. The coffee was restored and reopened in its current location in 1959 with the foundation, September 9 of the same year, of the Cultural Society of the Ussero.
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