"Antonio Milella" Hall

The current Milella room is located on the ground floor, entering the cloister located to the right of the entrance hall of the building that stands in the homonymous Piazza University .

The room, from the rectangular plan, is now used for activities not representing such as meetings, press conferences and other activities concerning the central university. It is dedicated to rector emeritus Antonio Milella , professor of arboreal crops and principal of the Faculty of Agriculture. Milella looked for a long time the position of rector of the Sassarese university from 1973 to 1991 and, in contemporary times, he is the one who has contributed most to the growth of the University. It is due to its foresight in the field of arboreal crops the agro-metalological innovation of Sardinia.

Relationships with illustrious personalities such as Pope John Paul II and the Toaff rabbi , who visited our university, just as the newly elected president of the Republic did, Francesco Cossiga , that in this university he obtained his degree.

The environment of the Milella room, with a rectangular plan, does not have traces of pictorial or plastic friezes, but is enriched by four oil round rounds on canvas. From the diameter of one meter each, they depict two country views and two marinas, within stucco frames, "almost were windows open on a landscape". The two landscapes have light and color that change according to the seasons and hours of the day.

The canvases were performed by Stanislao Dessy , to which the Delitala entrusted the renovation of the Turritano University. Delitala chose him because Dessy had been appointed director of the Urbino Book School. Linked to Delitala by close friendship, Dessy took over him in the work on the basis of a document of the 1934, with whom the artist committed himself, in front of the civil genius, "to perform the decoration of the room of the professors in the Royal University of Sassari", for the overall sum of 2,250 lire . The flooring, in polychrome marble, was also performed in the early 1930s, on the indication of the Dessy.

The Milella room is also enriched by one woodcut entitled Come on Paris! of 1934 (650x500) which resumes a scene of the Great War , and one football entitled Along the river of 1955 (450x320) with soft paint on zinc, which reproduces an rural landscape with in the foreground the image of the horse that will drink to the river where even the hunter's dogs that is on the back were able to refresh themselves. Both works were donated by Dessy's heirs, as reported by the brass plaque posted on the north wall of the room. Remember that Stanis Dessy he was one of the most intelligent, active and refined engravers of Sardinia.

The wooden furnishings report the university frieze and have been made by the laboratory Mastru mimmiu solinas artagglio of Buddusò, a laboratory that over time has been able to assert the art of carving all over the world, from Paris to the Arab countries, passing through the Phoenix of Venice.