Palazzo Giacomo Lomellini
The Palazzo Giacomo Lomellini, also known as Palazzo Patrone, stands at the heart of Genoa’s ceremonial Rolli system as Rolli No. 24. Built between 1619 and 1623, it reflects the early-17th-century Genoese taste for symmetrical façades and grand interior spaces, even in a narrow lot that required a carefully staged approach to its courtyard and entrance. Giacomo Lomellini, who governed as Doge from 1625 to 1627, oversaw the unification of two ancestral buildings into this aristocratic residence, which became part of Genoa’s first public hospitality rolls. The building’s composition includes a courtyard with a triforium-like design and a once-visible nymphaeum that has largely disappeared but is hinted at in historical views. Around 1855 the Lomellini family sold the palazzo to the Patrone family, who kept it until 1897. …
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