St. MARY OF THE ANNUNCIATION IN THE BORGO NEIGHBORHOOD

S. MARIA ANNUNZIATA IN BORGO

Lungotevere Vaticano 1

It was moved in 1950 from Borgo S. Spirito where it was originally built in 1744 by Pietro Passalacqua (1690/1748)

It is popularly known as ANNUNZIATINA

There are works of art formerly in the church S. Angelo dei Corridori (S. Angel of the Runners) destroyed in 1937

INTERIOR completed at the end of the eighteenth century

ON THE RIGHT

Bronze group “St. Michael the Archangel fighting with Lucifer” maybe by Albert Gefèvre

ON THE LEFT

Lunette “Apparition of St. Michael to St. Gregory the Great (590/604)” end of the sixteenth century by G.B. Montano (1543/1621)

In a niche “Madonna of the Milk with the Child” artist of the school of Antonio Aquili aka Antoniozzo Romano (about 1435-40/1508)

St. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

S. FRANCESCO D'ASSISI

Piazza di Monte Gaudio 8

Built in the years 1667/76 together with the adjoining convent

Also known as S. Onofrio in Campagna al Borgo Clementino (St. Onuphrius in the Country at Clementine Village)

FAÇADE

1728/29 by Pietro Passalacqua (1690/1748)

Interior decoration of the end of the seventeenth century by Pietro Baragiola

MAIN ALTAR

Giuseppe Cacci, in polychrome marble

SFORZA CESARINI PALACE

PALAZZO SFORZA CESARINI

Via dei Banchi Vecchi 118/Corso Vittorio Emanuele II

1458/62 built for Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander VI (1492/1503)

It was given as a sort of “bribe” to Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, who had supported Rodrigo Borgia in the conclave

The Cardinals Sforza and Della Rovere held the functions of Registrars of the Church here and the building was used as Chancellery until Leo X Medici (1513/21) moved the Chancellery offices to Palazzo Riario. Since then palazzo was known as the Old Chancellery

In 1697 the Sforza family intermarried with the Cesarini and since then they unified as Sforza Cesarini, current owners of the building

Modified 1730 by Pietro Passalacqua (1690/1748) with a new FAÇADE ON VIA DEI BANCHI VECCHI

FAÇADE ON CORSO VITTORIO EMANUELE II 1886/88 by Pio Piacentini (1846/1928) in a style that mimics the architecture of the sixteenth century