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Palazzo Cesi-Armellini

Historic site · Borgo, Italy

A palace on via della Conciliazione, first built about 1520 for cardinal Francesco Armellini and rebuilt into its present form for cardinal Pier Donato Cesi by Martino Longhi il Vecchio. Italian Wikipedia gives its owner as the general curia of the Society of the Divine Saviour.

History

The Cesi family bought the palace in 1565. Italian Wikipedia dates Longhi's rebuilding to 1570–1575 in the body of its article and to 1570–1588 in its infobox; the two do not agree and this guide states both rather than choosing. The same article records that the Landsknechte of Charles V entered Rome through this building in the Sack of 1527. Cutting via della Conciliazione mutilated it: the façade lost five of its thirteen windows, leaving eight, and the monumental staircase was destroyed. Italian Wikipedia describes what stands as a light brick façade in three bands with paired pilasters, an antique lion protome at one corner, a Doric-pilastered portal and a large rectangular courtyard.

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