Palazzo Salviati (formerly Adimari) is a palace in

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82-83.

History

The palace was built in the first half of 16th century by Filippo Adimari, '' Camerlengo'' of

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, on a plot of land for vineyard owned by Orazio Farnese. It is one of the greatest juvenile works by

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. The long façade is symmetrically divided into five sections by vertical

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s; the big gate in the middle is surmounted by a balcony that lies on big shelves. At the first floor, Giulio Romano also designed a chapel in

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's style. In 1552 the palace was sold to Cardinal

Giovanni Salviati Giovanni Salviati (24 March 1490 – 28 October 1553) was a Florentine diplomat and cardinal. He was papal legate in France, and conducted negotiations with the Emperor Charles V. Biography Salviati was born in Florence to Jacopo Salviat ...

and soon after its property was transferred to his brother

Bernardo Salviati Bernardo Salviati (17 February 1508 – 6 May 1568) was an Italian condottiero and Roman Catholic Cardinal. Salviati was born in Florence, the son of Jacopo Salviati and Lucrezia di Lorenzo de' Medici, the sister of Giovanni de' Medici. The ye ...

, Prior of the

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; in 1569 it was refurbished by Nanni di Baccio Bigio, who completed the elevation to its present aspect and enlarged the rear. The edifice was the residence of Cardinal Fulvio Giulio della Corgna, nephew of

Pope Julius III Pope Julius III ( la, Iulius PP. III; it, Giulio III; 10 September 1487 – 23 March 1555), born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 February 1550 to his death in March 155 ...

, until his death in 1583: in 1571 his famous warrior brother

Ascanio della Corgna Ascanio della Corgna (1516 – 3 December 1571) was an Italian condottiere from Umbria. He rose to become Marchese di Castiglione del Lago, in part due to his family connections to a Pope. Biography Ascanio as a young man had followed his uncle t ...

, coming back from the

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, died in the palace. In 1794 the palace passed to the

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and, after other transfers of property (Paccanari, Lavaggi), in 1840 it was bought by the

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and used as the seat of the city archive and of a botanical garden. After the expropriation on behalf of the Italian State in 1870, the palace housed the military court and the military college. In 1933 the courtyard was closed by a new wing. A shrine commemorates the military institution, now suppressed. During

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, in the period of the Nazi occupation, the rooms of the military college were used to lock in for some days (from 16 to 17 October 1943) a thousand Jews captured during the roundput in the

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, before they were deported. The palace now houses the ''Istituto Alti Studi per la Difesa'', with an important library specialized in military and geopolitical disciplines. In front of Palazzo Salviati formerly rose the Trastevere headboard of the Ponte dei Fiorentini, an iron suspension bridge built in 1863 close to the church of

San Giovanni dei Fiorentini The Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini ("Saint John of the Florentines") is a minor basilica and a titular church in the Ponte ''rione'' of Rome, Italy. Dedicated to St. John the Baptist, the protector of Florence, the new church for the ...

as an additional connection between the historic centre and the new quarter of

Prati Prati is the 22nd ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. XXII. It belongs to the Municipio I since 2013, while previously, along with Borgo and ''quartieri'' Trionfale and Della Vittoria, it was part of the Municipio XVII. Its coat of ...

, then under construction. It was a toll bridge, realised by a French private company, and the toll booth rose close to Palazzo Salviati; the transit costed 20 cents (1 ''soldo''), so the bridge was popularly known as ''Ponte del Soldino'' ("Bridge of the Little ''Soldo''"). It was demolished in 1941 and replaced one year later by

Ponte Principe Amedeo Savoia Aosta Ponte Principe Amedeo Savoia Aosta, also known as Ponte Principe or Ponte PASA after its acronym, is a bridge that links Lungotevere dei Sangallo to Piazza Della Rovere in Rome (Italy), in the Rioni Ponte, Trastevere and Borgo. Description ...

.About the history of the ''Ponte del Soldino'', se
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Bibliography

* Gabriele Morolli (editor), ''Palazzo Salviati alla Lungara'', Editalia, Rome 1991. *Touring Club Italiano, ''Roma'', Milan 2004, p. 585

Notes

{{Coord, 41.898371, 12.463071, region:IT-RO_type:landmark, display=title Houses completed in the 16th century Salviati Mannerist architecture in Italy Rome R. XIII Trastevere