Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . A ne. Haye PIAZZA ]5ARBERIXI (1865). (I ) S. ]!onaveiilu /•?. /•. Tuckclt PALATINE Walks in Rome 307 railing between massive decorative piers, erected 1865-67; and ifthis railing could be continued, and the block of houses towardsthe piazza removed, it would appear the most splendid privatepalace in Rome, always excepting the Farnese. This immense building is a memorial of the magnificence andambition of Urban VIII. Fearing that the family of Barberinimight become absorbed in that of Colonna, he also issued a Bullby which the name, estat
Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . A ne. Haye PIAZZA ]5ARBERIXI (1865). (I ) S. ]!onaveiilu /•?. /•. Tuckclt PALATINE Walks in Rome 307 railing between massive decorative piers, erected 1865-67; and ifthis railing could be continued, and the block of houses towardsthe piazza removed, it would appear the most splendid privatepalace in Rome, always excepting the Farnese. This immense building is a memorial of the magnificence andambition of Urban VIII. Fearing that the family of Barberinimight become absorbed in that of Colonna, he also issued a Bullby which the name, estates, and privileges of his house might passto any living male descendant, legitimate or illegitimate, whetherchild of prince or priest. ^ The size of the palace is enormous, thesmallest apartment in the building containing from twenty tothirty rooms. The family have usually inhabited the right the left wing—occupied in the beginning of the nineteenthcentury by the ex-king and queen of Spain and the Prince ofPeace—is the apartment of the late Cardinal Barberini, in whichCo
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