Italian castles and country seats . escoes of Ancient throne room is enormous in size and height, butthe most interesting place in the palace is the roomcontaining a collection of the portraits of the mostbeautiful women in Italy in the seventeenth century;jv^la a]R©|:liKR -ehQBibej: dias stbeNjaoBtitaite ffirfitheutwelvenieces of Alexander VII, who - (^ee p;a^b,504^jwith the elevation of their uncle . ... , apacy thatthey all became nuns to please him. In a large room at the top of the palace is a carriageof the Chigi Pope who was elected in 1655 and died in1667. It is to this Pope t
Italian castles and country seats . escoes of Ancient throne room is enormous in size and height, butthe most interesting place in the palace is the roomcontaining a collection of the portraits of the mostbeautiful women in Italy in the seventeenth century;jv^la a]R©|:liKR -ehQBibej: dias stbeNjaoBtitaite ffirfitheutwelvenieces of Alexander VII, who - (^ee p;a^b,504^jwith the elevation of their uncle . ... , apacy thatthey all became nuns to please him. In a large room at the top of the palace is a carriageof the Chigi Pope who was elected in 1655 and died in1667. It is to this Pope that we owe the magnificentcolonnade that is built in the Piazza of St. Peter at?Rome. The House of Savelli sold Ariccia in 1661 to theChigi family. This family originally came from Sienain the time of Sixtus IV, and grew rich in exchangetransactions. Agostino Chigi was the banker of Alex-ander VI and afterward became the financial adviserof the war Pope, Julius II (Delia Rovere). Chigis wealth increased to such a tremendous[392]. AND COUNTRY SEATS degree that his income was estimated at seventythousand ducats, an enormous sum for that age. Heis said to have owned a hundred vessels and hadbusiness houses in Lyons, London, Constantinople,Amsterdam, and even Babylon, and so great was hisfame that throughout the East he was known as thegreat Christian merchant. He ruled the moneymarket of his time, and when he arrived in Venice theCouncil did homage to him, and he was placed besidethe Doge at the great reception given in his villa in Rome was magnificent, filled with worksof art, statues, pictures, medals, gems, etc.; poets havedescribed the marvels of his princely residence, for itbecame one of the most famous monuments of the in Siena in 1465, he died in his art palace in 1520,and his family experienced the common lot of theuncertainty of fate, and later returned to Siena. Thevilla was sold by auction later, with all its treasures,to Cardinal Alessandro Farne
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