Palazzo Poli
The Palazzo Poli , also Palazzo Conti , is a palace in Rome in the Rione Trevi .
The palace was built from 1566 by Martino Longhi for the Ceri family. Lucrezia Colonna bought it in 1678. Through their marriage to Giuseppe Lotario Conti Graf von Poli, he came into the possession of the Counts of Poli . From 1732 the complete south facade with the Trevi Fountain was built by Nicola Salvi . For this, the middle part of the palace was demolished.
It was in this palace that the Russian princess Zinaida Volkonskaya gave her lavish parties in the 1830s. The German archaeologist and numismatist Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen lived there for rent in 1845/46 , who made this house a splendid center of Roman social life. The guests of her literary and social salon included Ottilie von Goethe , the painter Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann , the archaeologist Eduard Gerhard , the astronomer and mathematician Mary Somerville and the writer Fanny Lewald .
The palace currently houses an important collection of copperplate engravings from the last few centuries. The Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica is located in the palace.
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- ↑ Cf. Angela Steidele: Story of a love. Adele Schopenhauer and Sibylle Mertens . Berlin 2011, pp. 208ff. ISBN 978-3-458-35731-5 .
Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 4.1 ″ N , 12 ° 28 ′ 59.5 ″ E