Mancini palate

The Palais Mancini is a siué palate with Rome it was of 1737 to 1793 the residence of the boarder of the Académie from France to Rome

History

In 1634 Lorenzo Mancini, brother of the cardinal Francesco Maria Mancini married Geronima Mazzarino sister of the Cardinal Mazarin. For the weddings the old building of the Mancino family was increased with the acquisition of four adjacent houses and the new building was drawn by the architect Carlo Rainaldi. The building was supplemented by Filippo Mancini, duke of Nevers, between 1687 and 1689.

The king Louis XV ordered in 1725 the acquisition of the palate which was to be in 1737 the new residence of the Academy from France to Rome, succeeding the Capranica palate. In 1793 after the riots anti-Frenchwoman and the assassination of Bassville, the Academy leaves the palate. After the revolution this one becomes the residence of the embassy of France close the the Holy See. In 1798 the Academy returns to the palate, but in 1799 after the defeat of French, the seat was occupied and plundered.

In 1803 it was replaced by the Villa Médicis which becomes the new residence of the academy and in 1818 it was bought by Louis Bonaparte which yields it ten years after to the widow of Victor-Emmanuel Ier of Sardinia, Marie-Therese of Austria-Este. via the girl of this one, Marie-Christine of Savoy become queen of Naples, it passed into 1831 to the Bourbons of Naples and 1853 to Scipion Salviati. In 1919 the bank of Sicily acquired of it.

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