Palazzo Monte di Pietà

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Portal of the Palazzo Monte di Pietà
Historical view

The Palazzo Monte di Pietà is an aristocratic palace from the 17th century and is located on via XXIV Maggio in the Sicilian city of Messina .

history

In 1534 there was already a small church here, consecrated to S. Basilio and belonging to the order of the Nobile Confraternita degli Azzurri . In 1541 it was demolished in order to build a church of Monte di Pietà on it.

Architect: Natale Masuccio

Natale Masuccio was born in Messina in 1561 and sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1597 to train as a builder. Presumably it was housed in the Collegio Romano and it seems to have taken up the Tuscan-Roman style mixture that Ammanati and Giuseppe Valeriani represented there.

Palazzo Monte di Pietà

The Palazzo of Monte di Pieta is an impressive monumental creation. The huge facade is only broken up by windows with rusticated frames and a mighty central portal that leads into a wide, barrel-vaulted vestibule . It runs through the entire building block and leads into a spacious loggia .

loggia

The loggia of the Palazzo Monte di Pietà has three arcades open to the courtyard. The floor plan of the loggia goes back to Raphael's Villa Madama, but the semicircular elements have been left out and the pillars and window reveal have their own rustication, which consists of careful incisions at larger intervals and, in the case of the pilasters , is reached by a paving that almost extends to Width of the cover plates protruding.

Stairs and church

From here you have a wonderful view of the associated Scala Monte di Pietà staircase by Placido Campolo and Antonio Basile at the foot of the church “della Pietà”. The church was painted in 1707 by Filippo Tancredi , the altarpiece by Deodato Guinaccia . The stairs remained intact. In the middle is the fountain of the Abbondanza by Ignazio Buceti (1741).

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  1. ↑ Messina e Dintorni. Guide. A cura del municipio. Giuseppe Crupi, Messina 1902, ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Anthony Blunt : Sicilian Baroque. Ariel, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7606-0104-9 .

Coordinates: 38 ° 11 ′ 40.8 ″  N , 15 ° 33 ′ 9.8 ″  E