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Palazzo Della Porta

  • Visit: about 50 min
Palazzo Della Porta
Photo: Armando Mancini · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized

A 16th-century palazzo on Via Toledo where the philosopher and scientist Giambattista Della Porta lived.

On Via Toledo, Palazzo Della Porta was begun in 1546 by Francesco Della Porta on land belonging to the monks of Monteoliveto and completed in 1569.It was inherited by his son Giambattista Della Porta, a philosopher, scientist and man of letters of European fame, a scholar of optics and «natural magic». An inscription on the façade recalls his presence.

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