1598/1602 Carlo Maderno
(1556/1629) for Onofrio Santacroce. Formerly known as PALAZZO SANTACROCE
Completed
in the years 1630/40 by Francesco Peparelli
(active since 1626/d. 1641)
1659/68 FAÇADE ON VIA DEI CATINARI by Giovanni Antonio De Rossi (1616/95)
Since 1904
it belongs to the Pasolini family from Ravenna who opened their palace to the
followers of Modernism
It is now
divided into apartments and it is the seat of the library of the Italian-Latin
American Institute
GALLERY
Frescoes by G.B. Ruggieri aka
Battistino del Gessi (1606/40)
In another
room “Biblical scenes” by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606/80)
from Bologna
Cardinal
Prospero Publicola Santacroce was the first to introduce tobacco in Rome which
was called Santacroce Grass. The French ambassador in Portugal had
planted it in the royal gardens of Lisbon and had him trying it in 1561
It was
called Nicotine Grass and was thought to be a cure for many diseases so
as to be known as Holy Grass
The
Santacroce family could afford to build this building thanks to the proceeds of
the tobacco trade
In the
seventeenth century tobacco was strongly recommended to priests and nuns as an
aid to repress the sexual desires even if not everyone encouraged its use:
Innocent X Pamphilj (1644/55) came to threaten
to excommunicate those who had smoked in the Basilica of St.
Peter
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