Collegio Romano
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5019 x 3346 px | 42.5 x 28.3 cm | 16.7 x 11.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
5 August 2010Location:
Rome Roma centro storico historical centre centerMore information:
Saint Ignatius of Loyola had founded in 1551 a school for those wanting to enroll in the Society of Jesus. The school needed a bigger house and so on the back of the Jesuit compound of the church of Saint Ignatius was build the Palazzo del Collegio Romano (1582 - 1584), long thought to be by Bartolomeo Ammannati but now attributed to Giuseppe Valeriano. The building has had various functions during the centuries besides being a school (where a number of future popes studied), having hosted a library with 50, 000 volumes which was going to form the first nucleus of the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II (the most important Italian library), the Gregorian University (now in Piazza della Pilotta), and the astronomic observatory (it still hosts the thermometer where the temperature for central Rome are officially read). Nationalised in 1870 has hosted the first Roman Liceo-Ginnasio, entitled to Ennio Quirino Visconti (Liceo Visconti) so there still are always young persons around nowadays as in the past.