MUTI PAPAZZURRI PALACE

PALAZZO MUTI PAPAZZURRI

Piazza della Pilotta 33

1660/78 Mattia De Rossi (1637/95) for the Muti Papazzurri family that was not related with the Muti family, having taken their name for an ancient member of the family that was dumb (in Italian muto)

It was originally connected to the other Palazzo Papazzurri Muti (later Palazzo Balestra) with an arch that was destroyed but gave the name anyway to Via dell'Archetto (street of the arch)

An arch built in 1948 connects the palace to the former Franciscan convent

It is now owned by the Bruschi family

GALLERY

Frescoes and tempera on mythological subjects and landscapes second half of 1600s by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606/80) from Bologna and Giacinto Calandrucci (1646/1707) from Palermo, a student of Carlo Maratta

BIBLIOTECA DEL PONTIFICIO ISTITUTO BIBLICO (Library of the Pontifical Biblical Institute)

There are about 135,000 volumes about the Sacred Scripture and the Ancient Near East

PALACE OF THE PONTIFICAL GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY

PALAZZO DELLA PONTIFICIA UNIVERSITÀ GREGORIANA

Piazza della Pilotta 4

1927 Giulio Barluzzi (1878/1953) for Pius XI Ratti (1922/39) as the new home of the University of the Jesuits also called Gregorianum

It was founded in 1551 by S. Ignatius of Loyola as a grammar school, of humanity and of Christian doctrine and called Collegio Romano (Roman College)

Gregory XIII Boncompagni (1572/85) in 1583 endowed the university with a new and larger premises and in memory of his benefactor the Collegio Romano took later the name of Gregorian University

Pius XI wanted associated with the University, the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Oriental Institute, but each institution is legally distinct with its own rector, its faculty and its administration

It is also attended by lay students

It overlooks Piazza della Pilotta well known already at the beginning of the sixteenth century for the ball game that took place here

Pilotta is a contraction of the Spanish word pelota