The Cati Palace, sited at Luigi Chierici St. 30, was built on two buildings flanking the street below (now Cassio Sgrignani) conveniently lowered, around the late ‘500.The architect could belong to the Sangallo circle. It was built by Cardinal Giovanni Ricci.
The Cati Palace
Position
Via Luigi Chierici, 30
02040 Cantalupo in Sabina (RI)
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not visitable inside
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The Cati Palace in the Municipality of Cantalupo, located at 30 Via Luigi Chierici, was built on two buildings that flanked the street below (now Via Cassio Sgrignani) conveniently lowered, probably around the second half of the 1500s. The architect may have belonged to the Sangallo circle. It was built by Cardinal Giovanni Ricci. This can be inferred from a plaque placed on a threshold between two rooms, in which the following inscription is found “Cardinal’s Room.” Ricci was Cardinal Bishop of Sabina from 1573 to 1574, the year he died; he was an important diplomat, as well as a great collector of ancient works, and the initiator of what would become Villa Medici in Rome.
Inside the palace is a frescoed hall from the second half of the 16th century by an unknown author. The “New House,” as it is called in a council act of 1619 was erected as mentioned above, above two pre-existing adjoining buildings, whose original walls (present basements) are dated 1200. To build the new Palace, the old and modest upper floors, of these old dwellings, were demolished, leaving the basements of the buildings that formed the ground floor that opens onto the street below. The Palace faces two parallel streets, recurring on two different contours, that is, on a street below the building (Via Cassio Sgrignani) and a street (Via Luigi Chierici) on which the main facade with entrance door opens.
This is a Renaissance Palazzetto with a toe staircase, mansion with 3 floors, masonry and brick facade; jamb and flatbands, the windows also made of brick, ashlar paper doorway, grilles on the ground floor. The vertical structures are of stone masonry and brick while the cornices are of brick and the wooden rafters for floors and roofing.