1541 maybe Giovanni Lippi aka Nanni
di Baccio Bigio (about 1513/68) for Ludovico Mattei conte di Paganica
Partly
built over the auditorium of the THEATER
OF BALBUS
In 1640 Bartolomeo Breccioli (?/1639) expanded the building
for the Mattei family towards Via delle Botteghe Oscure, on land purchased in
1548, demolishing old houses owned by them
Since
1928, it is the headquarters of the INSTITUTE OF THE ITALIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA with
a library of 85,000 volumes mainly of encyclopedic works
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