1522/23.
The correct name would be Palazzetto Le Roy (Small Palace Le Roy) but it is also known as
Piccola Farnesina
We do not
know who built it, maybe Baldassarre Peruzzi
(1481/1536), for the Breton prelate Thomas Le Roy (De Regis in Latin) who died
before the completion of the work
The lilies
of France in the first floor markers were mistaken for the lilies of the
Farnese family and this was the cause of the incorrect name of the building
that has absolutely nothing to do with the Farnese. Le Roy was allowed to use
them because of his mediation between Pope Leo X Medici (1513/21) and King
Francis I of France
From 1671
to early 1800 it belonged to the Silvestri family
In 1885 it
was purchased by the City of Rome
1898/1904
Enrico Guj (1841/1905) changed it with the new FAÇADE
ON CORSO VITTORIO EMANUELE II, which caused the demolition of one quarter of
the building
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