1520/27 Giulio Pippi aka Giulio
Romano (1499/1546) for Filippo Adimari chamberlain of Pope Leo X Medici
(1513/21)
Completed 1552/68 by Giovanni Lippi aka Nanni di Baccio Bigio (about 1513/68) for Cardinal
Bernardo Salviati
From 1883
to 1943 it was the headquarters of the Military School of Rome
It was
restored and enlarged in 1933
It
originally faced the Leonino Port disappeared after the construction of
the embankments of the Tiber
On October
16, 1943 1,022 Roman Jews were brought here, and two days later deported to
Auschwitz. Only sixteen survived
In 1945 it
was for a full year Hospital of the Canadian Armed Forces
Between
1946 and 1950 it was the Military Tribunal
Since 1971
is home to the Centro Alti Studi per la Difesa (Centre for High Defense
Studies)
LIBRARY
Three rooms
with ceilings decorated in 1883 with “Scenes of battles of the Risorgimento and
other military episodes” and “Groups of plants and flowers” by Annibale Brugnoli (1843/1915)
CHAPEL
Paintings
by Santi di Tito (1536/1603)
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