The Palazzo Compagnoni Marefoschi is a

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-style aristocratic urban palace located on Via don Minzoni 11 in the center

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, region of the Marche, Italy. It rises diagonal to the

Palazzo Buonaccorsi The Palazzo Buonaccorsi is an 18th-century aristocratic palace, now the civic museum of the town, located on Via Don Minzoni 24 in the historic center of Macerata, region of Marche, Italy. Description The palace was erected on a site with some h ...

History

Documents recall that the Compagnoni family by 1138 were inhabiting this site. By 1211, they had extended their holdings in this quarter of the city. The various buildings at this site were built over various centuries. In 1736, the branch of the family Compagnoni delle Lune built their own palace, commissioned from the architect

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. A few decades later, the Compagnoni Marefoschi (arising from the Compagnoni delle Stelle) erected this present adjacent palace in the 18th-century. From 1755 to 1771, the brothers Mario and Camillo Compagnoni Marefoschi, commissioned from

Luigi Vanvitelli Luigi Vanvitelli (; 12 May 1700 – 1 March 1773), known in Dutch as (), was an Italian architect and painter. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practised a sober classicising academic Late Baroque style that made an ea ...

a major refurbishment, leading to the late-baroque or

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facade we see presently. Along the entrance stairway are numerous ancient Roman inscriptions derived from

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at Tivoli.Comune of Macerata
entry on palace. The palace was the birthplace of cardinal

Mario Compagnoni Marefoschi Mario Compagnoni Marefoschi (10 September 1714 – 23 December 1780) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in the Palazzo Compagnoni Marefoschi in Macerata, Italy. Pope Clement XIV made him a cardinal ''in pectore'' on 29 Ja ...

who spearheaded the suppression of the Jesuit order. In 1772, the palace hosted the marriage celebration for

Louise of Stolberg-Gedern Princess Louise Maximiliane Caroline Emanuel of Stolberg-Gedern (20 September 1752 – 29 January 1824) was the wife of Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite claimant to the English and Scottish thrones. The unhappy marriage led her to request f ...

and

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, Count of Albany and pretender to the throne of England. The palace still houses descendants of the Compagnoni, and also is home to a School of Paralegal Training (Scuola di Specializzazione per le Professioni Legali). Cappella privata palazzo Compagnoni

References

Bibliography

*Adele Piergallini, Umberto Santori Compagnoni Marefoschi, Palazzo Compagnoni Marefoschi di Macerata, vol. 1 (collana "La famiglia Compagnoni Marefoschi: i Palazzi e la storia"), 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Compagnoni Marefoschi Buildings and structures in Macerata Baroque architecture in Marche Palaces in Marche Luigi Vanvitelli buildings