Villa Aldrovandi Mazzacorati, Neoclassical villa in Camaldoli district, Bologna, Italy.

Villa Aldrovandi Mazzacorati is a neoclassical residence with a central pavilion crowned by Ionic columns, flanked by curved side wings. These wings feature Tuscan-style columns and open terraces, creating a harmonious composition that extends across the landscape.

Annibale Marescotti bought the land in 1696, when it was a farm with a modest owner's house. The Aldrovandi family acquired it through the kinship of Filippo Aldrovandi and Raniero Marescotti and began renovations around 1690. The villa was raised with a second floor from 1765, and Filippo Tadolini enriched the Neoclassical decoration between 1770 and 1772. The Mazzacorati family, who gave the villa its name, added their coat of arms to the facade in the early 19th century.

The theatre was inaugurated on 24 September 1763 with a performance of Voltaire's tragedy Alzira. Its two tiers of loggias rest on caryatids carved by Petronio Tadolini, and touring companies of the period made it a centre for the spread of Italian-style theatre. It is still used occasionally for performances.

The villa stands at Via Toscana 19, at the end of the street named after Amilcare Ponchielli, in the Camaldoli area on Bologna's first outskirts. It now houses offices and clinics of the city's health and social services, so interiors are working spaces rather than a museum circuit. The small theatre survives and is used only occasionally for performances; the Museo storico del soldatino Mario Massacesi, with over 12,000 toy soldiers, is kept inside the building.

The side wings, called barchesse, follow a quarter-circle curve and serve more as visual anchors than as usable spaces. Their design reveals how much attention was paid to the optical harmony of the entire composition.