The Palazzo Buono is a palace in

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, located on via Toledo in the

Montecalvario Montecalvario ( it, Mount of Calvary) is a neighbourhood (quartiere) of Naples, southern Italy. The area centers roughly on the square called Piazza Carità and the metal monument to Salvo D'Acquisto at the northern end of the Quartieri Spagnoli ...

district. It was first commissioned in the 17th century by the De Curtis family and designed by

Bartolomeo Picchiatti Bartolomeo Picchiatti (Ferrara, 1571 – Naples, 3 April 1643) was an Italian engineer and architect. A short street in the Soccavo area of the city is named after him. Life He moved to Naples in 1593, having been summoned by the architect Do ...

. It later housed the '' Monte dei Poveri Vergognosi'' bank and during the ten years of French occupation it became the tribunal of commerce. After the French departed, it was bought by the Buono family, who in 1826 took on

Gaetano Genovese Gaetano Genovese (1795, Eboli - 1875, Naples) was an Italian architect and designer. He is most notable as the chief royal architect for almost all of the reign of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies Ferdinand II ( it, Ferdinando Carlo; scn, Ferd ...

to rebuild it in the neoclassical style. It was later acquired by the Bocconi brothers, who turned it into a department store before selling it in 1921 to the Società Magazzini Milanesi, which became

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. In 2008 La Rinascente shut down and the palace remained closed until 2011, when it became an H&M store.

Bibliography

* Italo Ferraro, ''Napoli: atlante della città storica'', Volume 3, CLEAN, 2008 {{coord missing, Italy 17th-century architecture Buono