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 tains a document concerning the sale of the house, the deed of being dated February 11, 1574, and shows that the buyer Andrea Rubini, purchased it for scudi, “pro. persona nomi nan Another document r 1574, declares the “persona nominanc to have been Cardinal Felice Peretti, and there are many evidences to prove that he lived here between 1574 and 1581 or 1582, when he retired to his little villa and vigna Santa Maria Maggiore, where he lived in comparative seclusion till his elevation to the Papal Throne in 1585 It was

house that unfortunate treacherou assassinated Giord: cause

sale

one 3,050

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very the and

esumably from. this the Cardinal's nephew Francesco Peretti ever

of

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enticed one r

at the instance

Orsini, Duke of Brac nt nobleman was et ored of Francesco Peretti’s wife beautiful \ Accoramboni sion apparently reciprocated by bitious lady—and wished himself. ri

the pa

ttoria 1 that to have her This tragedy nearly broke heart, and d closely than ever to his three arts and buildin devoted himself during the period of his political eclipse the elevation of Cardinal to the pontificate as Gregory XIIT

Save the just noted with ence to the history of the Palazzo P all else is conjectural owing to the ent lack of documentary evidence ; was presumably during these comy uiet, leisure, and ‘such chitectural activity as his relatively slen der means would permit, that, with his passion for building, he caused the cor- tile to be constructed. The structural evidence points to about 1580 as an ap- proximate date

It has been suggested, on the strength of sundry items of design, that either Giovanni da Bologna or Bartolommeo Ammanato may have been responsible for the plan. But Giovanni da Bolognz so far as we know, was working in Flor ence about the time the cortile was ap- parently constructed and had been for some years previously. Bartolommeo

the

ardinal’s for solace him more hobbies

books, the

which he had since Boncompagni facts refer

tti pres but it

of

years ive

who rebuilt the won r Ponte Sama Trinita across the Arno, see been steadily employed in Florence d ing all this period, although the flattening out projections cortile, with the usual nd that was be more and more characteristic of baroque design, would favor the h rehitect accustomed

re}

Ammanato, too, he

drously — beautiful alla ms to have r reneral the be

omit

compare swelling relief

ression of any tumultuous abandon ¢

an jorent

lines

It much work, which is ol who had whatever ght h

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not the

seems more wi

of one master,

1 genius he

buddir

1 1 recent recently

creation of hitec 1 wh ved afterwar¢ Fontana wt tain of Acc many the igr Peret Pope Sixtus \ Fascina’ . the enough

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gna’s or ur rience young himself

sure

not the sense elimination ntrol that later t showering fruits of an ardent vention from a delightful de

tle

c would bring, the exuberant

omtaneous

years

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and 1

n

uy pick man not lit

which we ail and g

inspiration

As a study

tecture and p:

esting, if not

ing and suggestive.

in the combination of arcl it at least inter indeed distinctly illuminat It might have heen equally engaging as a study in the com bination of architec ainting

sculpture, if the niches, on each of th three sides, now contained the statues for which they were in all probability originally designed. As will be seen by reference to the elevation drawing of the end or south wall, the mouldings, cor

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