Palazzo della Cancelleria
You’re looking at the Palazzo della Cancelleria, a Renaissance palace that sits between Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and Campo de’ Fiori, and it’s tied—right down to its name—to the former Apostolic Chancery of the Pope. Work began in 1489 and stretched to 1513, and it’s often credited to Baccio Pontelli and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder as the early Renaissance project for Raffaele Cardinal Riario, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church. Here’s the twist: even after it was newly finished, in 1517 Pope Leo X seized the palace because he suspected Riario of plotting against him. Leo X then gave it to his cousin, Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici, the future Pope Clement VII—and that vice-chancellorship is one reason the building became known as the Cancelleria. Later chapters are wild: during the Roman Republic of 1849, parliament briefly sat here, and in the 17th century Christina, former Queen of Sweden, lived in the palace. …
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