Beginning
of the seventeenth century for the Centini family. Later known as Palazzo
Toni and as Casa dei Pupazzi (House of the Puppets)
Renovated
1722/42 by Francesco Rosa (active since
1674/died 1687) the architect of the most beautiful sacristy of Rome, the one
in S.
Mary Magdalene
One Giacomo
Centini was beheaded in 1635 by Urban VIII Barberini (1623/44) for plotting
'with magic' in favor of his uncle Cardinal Felice Centini as the successor to
the papal throne
The
writer, painter and Italian politician Massimo D'Azeglio used to have his
studio here
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