1658/65 Giovanni Antonio De Rossi
(1616/95) for Giuseppe and Benedetto D'Aste
“Only the
Borromini-inspired rounded corners and the pure, unorthodox arrangement in
three rows, which includes the four sides are mildly progressive. All the
decorations, including the curved pediments of the windows, are quite simple.
Confidentiality and an immaculate sense of proportion are the virtues of this
style. The intelligent fusion carried out by Rossi of the decorative details
inspired by Pietro da Cortona and Francesco Borromini and the transformation of
this into a personal idiom relatively light and pleasant foretold his important
part in the development of the architecture of the eighteenth century” (Rudolf
Wittkower)
In 1760 it
was sold to the Marquis Ranuccini of Florence
From 1818
it belonged to Letizia Bonaparte, Napoleon's mother, who lived and died here in
1836
She
notoriously used to peep through the famous corner balcony, known in Italian as
mignano
In 1972 it
became the property of the Assicurazioni d'Italia (Insurance of Italy)
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