About
1471/84 for Mario Mellini after whom maybe Monte Mario was named
It is one
of the few surviving fifteenth-century villas in Rome
When in
1788 the Mellini family extinguished with the death of Giulia (last heir of the
family), who had married Mario Falconieri, the villa became property of the
Falconieri family and it was renamed VILLA
FALCONIERI
A second
monumental entrance portal on Via Trionfale was added as well as a neo-Gothic
building, known as CASALE FALCONIERI
In 1935 the
villa was turned into the ASTRONOMICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY with the ASTRONOMICAL
AND COPERNICAL MUSEUM which had been founded in 1873 in the Collegio Romano (Roman College)
with Copernican memorabilia and with donations including that of Pietro
Tacchini
Here are
preserved ancient sextants, telescopes, sundials, compasses, Arab astrolabes of
the twelfth and thirteenth century and one of the largest collection of globes
in the world
LIBRARY
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