Casa di Lorenzo Manilio
Historic site · Sant'Angelo, Italy
A house of 1468 whose facade carries a long Latin inscription across a marble band, with its builder's name repeated on the architraves and ancient fragments set into the plaster of the base.
History
Roma Capitale's page for the rione carries the full Latin text with an Italian translation. It records that Lorenzo Manilio built the house from the foundations on piazza Giudea, for himself and his descendants, in the year 2221 from the foundation of Rome, at the age of 50 years, 3 months and 2 days, on the eleventh day before the calends of August. His name is repeated three times in Latin and once in Greek on the architraves, and the motto Ave Roma is cut on the windows.
Visit
Via del Portico d'Ottavia 1, 00186 Roma RM
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