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The history of the palace of the Colonna family which stood on the site which was afterwards occupied by the Palazzo Odescalchi is by no means completely known : but the researches which Sig. Francesco Tomassetti has been good enough to make in the Boncompagni Ludovisi archives, with the kind permission of the Prince of Piombino, have thrown a considerable amount of light on it : and I therefore give the results of his investigations; which have brought to light some very interesting facts.
We saw that Bufalini's plan of Rome (1551) showed a palace of the Colonna family existing on a part of the site. This palace belonged to Pierfrancesco Colonna, lord of Zagarolo and Colonna, and passed with these estates to his heiress Vittoria, who married Camilla Colonna. The latter died in 1558, and his widow gave it on July 10, 1562, with the rest of her property (Zagarolo and Colonna) to her sons Cardinal Marcantonio and Prospero Colonna and her grandson Marzio, son of Pompeo Colonna, in equal portions, on condition that in case of the death of one, the others should succeed in the order given.
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page 67 note 1 The documents relating to the palace are all bound in one volume (Armadio IX. prot. 313). They will bs cited as ‘Doc’ followed by their respective numbers.
page 67 note 2 A summary of the history of the palace from 1562 to 1622 is given in Doc. 14 (the Brief of Pope Gregory XV. confirming the sale of the palace to Cardinal Ludovisi). For the deed of gift inter vivos of July 10, 1562, see Coppi,Memorie Colonnesi, 333; Tomassetti, , Campagna Romana Antica, Medioevale, e Moderna, iii. 418, 430Google Scholar.
page 68 note 1 He is referred to as Giovanni Domenico Paolucci in Doc. 14.
page 68 note 2 April 20, 1589. The house is described as ‘domus terrinea, solarata et tectata cum apotheca et discoperto seu horticello.’ The garden was in the direct occupation of the fathers of S. Marcello.
page 68 note 3 Papers, viii. p. 57.
page 69 note 1 The house had been granted in emphyteusis (or hereditary lease) to Sebastiano and his heirs to the third generation at this rent by the fathers of S. Marcello on October 31, 1547: it is there referred to as situated between the property of Giovanni Maria Tassi and the property of the church of S. Maria in Via Lata, with the property of Cosma Lothoriga (probably Lotaringa, i.e., the Lorrainer) behind (Doc. 1). It is, further, referred to in the document published in Papers, viii. p. 87. I know no more of the palace of the Aldobrandini in the Corso (see Lanciani, , Storia degli Scavi, iv. 179Google Scholar). We have no evidence to enable us to identify more accurately the house which the fathers of SS. Apostoli let in emphyteusis to the third generation to Paolo de. Marchi, a Sicilian barber, on September 19, 1547, for a rent of 10 scudi per annum, and which was situated in the Piazza, facing the church: but as a copy of the lease is preserved among the other documents (Doc. 2) it is clear that it must have been among the houses which occupied the site of the palace. We may thus explain the existence of an annual charge of 10 scudi on the palace in favour of the fathers of SS. Apostoli, which was compounded for by Cardinal Ludovisi by the gift of three shares in the loan known as the ‘Monte del Sussidio biennale’ (Moroni, , Dizionario, xl. 149Google Scholar). A copy of the release given by them to the Cardinal, dated October, 10, 1622 (Doc. 16), and the original brief confirming this release dated April 24, 1623 (Doc. 21), are preserved in the volume already referred to.
page 70 note 1 Ciaconius (iv. 436) calls Tresci Tressius or Trejo Paniaqua. Francesco Peretti became Cardinal in December, 1641, and died in 1655( ib. 610).
page 71 note 1 Two Egyptian altars, Catalogue of Greek and Roman Antiquities, iii. 2494, 2495; Museum Odescalchum, ii. (ed. 1), Pls. 98, 90, 85, 97: 89, 91, 100, 83; ii. (ed. 2), Pls. 42, 43, 47, 50: 44, 53, 48, 51: there was a third altar representing Winter, the present locality of which I do not know, represented in op. cit, ii. (ėd. 1), Pls, 76, 84, 86, 89 (or 99); ii. (ed. 2), Pls. 46, 52, 49, 44 (of 45); and a green basalt bath and a dark granite basin(ib. Nos. 2542, 2543) bought by Tawnley in 1776.
page 73 note 1 Bevignani in Archivio della Società Romana di Storia Patria, xxxiii. (1910), p; 10Google Scholar.
page 74 note 1 Biroccini, G. in Arcadia, i. (1889), 50Google Scholar. The Academy had met in 1705–7 in the Villa Giustiniani, which lay immediately behind it (Nolli, Pianta di Roma, 1748): cf.A. Monaci (to whose kindness I owe these references) in Giornale Arcadico, 1914, fasc. 9–11. Cf. also Boni in Boll. d'Arle, viii. (1914), 369.