Villino Rudinì

Italian Wikipedia records that the villino was designed and built between 1904 and 1906 by Ernesto Basile for the family of Antonio Starabba, marchese di Rudinì, twice Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy. It is a severe parallelepiped set back from the street, three storeys over a basement plus a recessed attic, entered through a projecting body of three round arches. The shell is post-Risorgimento and monumental in manner, and the decoration is Liberty: squared mullioned windows in the attic, a frieze running the full perimeter, and floral Art Nouveau motifs in the window frames, the portico, the railings and the gate.

The same article, citing L'Architettura Italiana of December 1907, names the craftsmen: the Palermo sculptor Gaetano Geraci executed the principal ornamental sculpture, the stuccoist G. Varnesi of Rome the secondary work, the Li Vigni firm the front portico and hall decoration, and Antonio Ronconi the wrought iron.

Italian Wikipedia states that the villino houses the chancery and consular section of the Embassy of Japan to the Italian State. Diplomatic premises stand on Italian soil; the building is not Japanese territory. It is not open to visitors.