1532/36 Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481/1536) for Angelo Massimo
He built it
on a preexisting building at the same time of the adjacent Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne
Also known
as PALAZZO MASSIMO DI PIRRO for a statue of Mars found here and
incorrectly believed to be an image of Pyrrhus
1877
restored by Luigi Fontana (1827/1908)
On the FAÇADE ON PIAZZA DEI MASSIMI paintings in monochrome “Stories
from the Old and New Testament” 1523 maybe of the school
of Daniele da Volterra (1509/66) for the marriage of Angelo Massimo
In the
palace there was since 1467 the printing of Arnold Pannartz and Conrad
Schweynheim, the first ever in Rome
“Some
considerations lead rather to recognize it in a house that the Massimo brothers
had in the immediate vicinity of Campo de' Fiori, along the Via Mercatoria,
obligatory point of passage for Romans and foreigners, and therefore very
suitable place for the sale of books produced in series. This same house - a
sign of continuity in the use of places for both production and for sale -
housed in all likelihood, after Sweynheym and Pannartz two other typographical
workshops: the one of Eucario Silber and that of Antonio Blado, located «in
field Florae in aedibus Iohannis Baptistae de Maximis»“ (Anna Modigliani -
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)
In
front of the building in Piazza dei Massimi COLUMN OF THE ODEON OF DOMITIAN
found in 1937 and moved here in 1950
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