House of Febo Brigotti
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The House di Febo Brigotti (Italian: Casa di Febo Brigotti) is a Renaissance house located on Via dei Corridori 44, in the Borgo rione of Rome.[1]
History
[edit]Originally located in Borgo Nuovo 106-107,[2] it was the residence of Febo Brigotti, a physician in the service of Pope Paul III (but according to Ludwig von Pastor of Pope Leo X)[2] in the first half of the 16th century.[3] On Borgo Nuovo the house, which had been erected before the construction of Borgo Nuovo in 1499,[4] bordered to the west the Palazzo Jacopo da Brescia.[2] The current building is a reconstruction of the original, demolished along with the rest of the Spina di Borgo in the 1930s during the works for the opening of Via della Conciliazione.[3]
Architecture
[edit]The reconstructed facade, attached to the back of the Palazzo Rusticucci-Accoramboni, has a design with simple rectangular windows with an arched portal framed in travertine with an inscription revealing the owner's motto, "OB FIDEM ET CHLIENTELA" ("Due to the faith and the customers").[3] The original building had also another inscription above the epistyle, "PHOEBUS BRIGOCTUS MEDICUS".[5]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Gigli (1992) p. 94
- ^ a b c Ludwig von Pastor (1916). Die Stadt Rom zu Ende der Renaissance (in German). Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder Verlag. p. 15. ISBN 9789925056484.
- ^ a b c Gigli (1992) p. 98
- ^ K.J.P. Lowe (1961). A Florentine prelate's real estate in Rome between 1480 and 1524: the residential and speculative property of Cardinal Francesco Soderini. Vol. 59. R. Clay & sons. p. 262.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Gigli (1992) p. 100
Sources
[edit]- Gigli, Laura (1992). Guide rionali di Roma (in Italian). Vol. Borgo (II). Roma: Fratelli Palombi Editori. ISSN 0393-2710.
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