Editing Farinelli (section)

==Retirement and death==
[[File:Busto de Farinelli (anónimo neoclásico, MRABASF E-599) 01.jpg|thumb|right|Anonymous [[Neoclassicism|Neoclassical]] bust of Farinelli ([[Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando|R.A.B.A.S.F.]], [[Madrid]])]]

Ferdinand was succeeded by his half-brother [[Charles III of Spain|Charles III]] in 1759. He had no time for music, so it seems: he disbanded the opera and discharged Farinelli but granted him his full salary for the rest of his life. Farinelli returned to Italy where he lived out his days at the beautiful villa  he had built outside [[Bologna]] (he had acquired citizenship of that city as well as the necessary land as long ago as 1732). Though rich and still famous, visited by such notable figures as Charles Burney, [[Leopold Mozart]] and his son [[Wolfgang Amadeus]], and [[Giacomo Casanova|Casanova]], he would have been lonely in his old age, having outlived many of his friends and former colleagues. One distinguished friend of his later years was the music historian, [[Giovanni Battista Martini|Giovanni Battista (known as "Padre") Martini]] who lived in Bologna. Farinelli also continued his correspondence with Metastasio, court poet at Vienna, dying a few months after him. In his will (Achivio Notarile Gambarini Lorenzo 1782 10 Gennaio - 23 Xbre, 5/14, Achivio di Stato di Bologna), dated 20 February 1782, Farinelli asked to be buried in the mantle of the [[Order of Calatrava]], as ordained in the statutes of the order, and was interred at the city's Capuchin monastery of Santa Croce. His estate included gifts from royalty, a large collection of paintings including works by [[Diego Velázquez|Velázquez]], [[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo|Murillo]], and [[Jusepe de Ribera]], as well as portraits of his royal patrons, and several of himself, some by his friend [[Jacopo Amigoni]] and one by [[Corrado Giaquinto]] now in the Museo Civico di Bologna. The inventory of his estate includes a collection of seven keyboard instruments in which he took great delight, especially a piano made in [[Florence]] in 1730 (called in the will {{lang|it|cembalo a martellini}}), inherited from Queen Maria Bárbara, and violins by [[Stradivarius]] and [[Amati]] (Achivio Notarile Gambarini Lorenzo 1782 BIS, 5/14, 17, Achivio di Stato di Bologna).

Farinelli died in Bologna on 16 September 1782. His original place of burial was destroyed during the [[Napoleonic Wars]], and in 1810 Farinelli's great-niece Maria Carlotta Pisani had his remains transferred to the cemetery of La Certosa in Bologna. Maria Carlotta bequeathed many of Farinelli's letters to [[University of Bologna]]'s library and was buried in the same grave as Farinelli in 1850.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}