San Giovanni Battista dei Genovesi (''Saint

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of the Genoans'') is a

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church on via Anicia in the

Trastevere Trastevere () is the 13th ''rione'' of Rome: it is identified by the initials R. XIII and it is located within Municipio I. Its name comes from Latin ''trans Tiberim'', literally 'beyond the Tiber'. Its coat of arms depicts a golden head of a lio ...

district of Rome. It is the regional church for

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. It was built between 1481 and 1492 by the wealthy Genoan Meliaduce Cicala, treasurer of the

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. It was an addition to a hospital for Genoese sailors which Cicala built at porto di Ripa Grande. In 1533 the Confraternity of Genoans was founded to administer the church and the hospital - the latter continued to function until the mid 18th century. The church was rebuilt in 1737, with an

apse In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an ''exedra''. In ...

added to its facade. It was then little altered until the mid 19th century, when a new facade was added and the interior redesigned. In 1890 the confraternity was renamed Opera Pia.

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Mariano Armellini Mariano Armellini (7 February 1852 – 24 February 1896) was an Italian archaeologist and historian. Born in Rome, he was one of the founders of the Pontifical Academy of Martyrs. He is the author of ''Gli antichi cimiteri cristiani di Roma e d' ...

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