Piazza Ungheria 4
1931/33 Clemente Busiri Vici (1887/1965)
It was one of the first attempts to simplify Roman religious architecture
It was dedicated to the Jesuit saint Robert Bellarmine (1542/1621) director of the Vatican Library, famous for his participation in the trials against Giordano Bruno and Galileo Galilei
At the end of the thirties it was the Roman church of the fascist elite who resided in the Parioli neighborhood, including Galeazzo Ciano and his wife Edda Mussolini, son and daughter of Benito Mussolini
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the titular cardinal of this church before becoming Pope Francis in 2013
INTERIOR
“Stations of the Cross” by Corrado Vigni (1888/?)
STAINED GLASS WINDOWS
“Events in the life of St. Robert Bellarmine” designed by Alessandra Busiri
APSE, TRANSEPT AND DOME
Mosaics by Renato Tomassi (1884/1972): in the apse “St. Robert Bellarmine praying” and in the spandrels “Symbols of the four Evangelists”
The MAIN ALTAR was donated by the great tenor Beniamino Gigli
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