On June 15, 2009 at 6.00 pm the Attorney General of the State Oscar Fiumara, the President of the Modigliani Institut Christian Parisot and the Vice President of the Modigliani Institut Massimo Riposati inaugurated the exhibition "Modigliani - A secret love", set up in the Vanvitelli Room of the State Attorney General, which will remain open until June 22, 2009. The exhibition, which consists of some works by Modigliani, his French and Italian friends and rare documents, photographs and correspondence, focuses on the painting Jeune femme à la guimpe blanche, for the first time in Italy.It is the portrait of Simone Thirioux whom, in 1917, Amedeo Modigliani knows, loves and makes a mother: he will leave her for other loves, he will not recognize his own son, with the ferocity that genius often cultivates in the garden of his own affections, and gives us a testimony as light as a sigh and heavy as the death that now sails on Simone Thirioux's head and on his own: in the pinto that for the first time is presented to the Italian public, Jeune femme à la guimpe blanche, Modigliani makes the pictorial material light, almost transparent, almost an unfinished painting at the service of the recreation of a suspended atmosphere, close to the heart but far in the memory This painting, thanks to Olga Sidamon-Eristavi, collector lender of the work, by Tod Tarrant, Michael Mezzatesta and Alan Kershaw arrives in Rome and creates the heart of the exhibition.