The Palazzo Rossi is a former aristocratic palace located at Via Rossi in central

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. The palace now serves in part to house collections and offices of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia.

Description

Properties on the site were owned by the Rossi family since the 13th-century, and combined in the 18th-century in to the present building. The Rossi family branched out through Italy, and Porzia de Rossi, daughter from a Rossi living in the

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was the mother of the author

Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...

. Bocchino di Girolamo Rossi was a mathematician in Siena in 1593, and Andrea d'Antonio Rossi was dean of the University of Pisa in 1608. Giulio Rossi was the bishop of Pistoia in 1804. The palace on the northwest of the site was designed circa 1749 by P. Raffaello Ulivi and completed by Salvadore Piccioli by 1795. It was situated on the family's ancient quarters and tower, located adjacent to the gate of Sant'Andrea and fortress of San Jacopo in Castellare located in the first circle of walls. The palace once displayed a stone head supposedly depicting the infamous Filippo Tredici, much like the bust outside the Palazzo degli Anziani. The interiors are frescoed and decorated with stucco. The stairwells (1760) were stuccoed by Tommaso Cremano and frescoed by Meucci. Some of the rooms were frescoed by Bartolomeo Valiani, with landscapes by Fini. The ballroom has a fresco depicting the opening dance of the

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, painted in 1838 by

Giuseppe Bezzuoli Giuseppe Bezzuoli (28 November 1784 – 13 September 1855) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassicism, Neoclassic period, active in Milan, Rome, and his native city of Florence. Biography He studied as a young man under Jean-Baptiste Desmarais a ...

. The adjacent palace was designed in 1830 by Alessandro Gherardeschi. It was frescoed by Niccolo Monti, and stuccoed by Ferdinando Marini and sculptures by Francesco Carradori.Pistoia e il suo territorio: Pescia e i suoi dintorni: guida del forestiero
by Giuseppe Tigri, Tipografia Cino, Pistoia (1853): page 174-175.

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