Palazzo Cesi
The Palazzo Cesi is a palace in Rome . It is in Via Acquasparta, near Ponte Umberto I , north of Piazza Navona in the Rione Ponte .
The palace was built by the Florentine merchant family Gaddi . Thanks to reproductions, which are now kept in the Albertina in Vienna , one still has a good idea of the frescoes at the time, carried out by Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino da Firenze .
In 1567, Angelo Cesi , cardinal and bishop of Todi , acquired the palace; three years later he sold it to Ugo Buoncompagni. As Buoncompagni to Pope Gregory XIII in 1572 . was elected, he gave the palace back to the Cesi family. The Cesi left the Renaissance facade and only renewed the portal in Via della Maschera d'Oro; They completely redesigned the interior. They added a garden at the back. Palazzo Cesi founded Federico Cesi the 1603 Accademia dei Lincei , which among other things, Galileo Galilei joined.
The palace remained in the family's possession until 1798, after which it changed hands several times. In 1940 the building was expropriated for the War Ministry.
Today the Palazzo Cesi is the seat of the General Military Prosecution (Uffici giudiziari militari superiori) . In this use, he was the " cabinet of shame known", a filing cabinet, which was sealed 1960-1994 and files on Nazi - war crimes such as the massacre of Sant'Anna di Stazzema contained.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Palazzo Cesi ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on vinilazio.org
- ↑ Palazzo Cesi ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on palazzidiroma.it
- ↑ Georg Bönisch, Carsten Holm, Hans-Jürgen Schlamp: closet of shame . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 2001, p. 56-58 ( online ).
Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 4 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 17" E