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The building, which is now a National Monument, was erected in the sixteenth century by the Duchess Giroloma Column and occupied the entire insula between Calata Trinita Maggiore, Via Domenico Capitelli, street and alley Maddaloni Monteleone, and here placed on the border with the ownership of the vast ddel Marquis with a host of smaller buildings. Originally the building also housed the paintings by Paolo De Matteis depicting some episodes of the Aeneid and the Gerusalemme Liberata. In 1718 the Duke Nicholas commissioned the architect Ferdinando Sanfelice the renovation of the central part of the building. the Sanfelice, among other things, invented what remains one of the portals of the most interesting and grandiose Baroque era.


The interior: After the first flight of the beautiful, bright and impressive stairs piperno, the visitor sees an antechamber space, with a delicious lineup of white marble, contained between mild and fluted scrolls, made for the invitation to the next room d ‘ waiting. Here and there ‘a wooden staircase with two flights elittichw opposing sinuously harmonized with the gallery through two balconies in the round, among which is a bench resting on the seabed of wooden panels, lining the side walls. The notary G. De Vivo, we learn that in 1723 of paintings, large and small, there were more ‘than a thousand, and all of famous authors: CARRACCI, GUERCINO, BRUEGEL, TINTORETTO, RUBENS, Vaccaro, Giordano, Solimena … COULD NOT THEN MISS A NICE AUTHOR NATIVITY.


(G.MACCHIAVELLI- F.TIRONE I TESORI DI PIAZZA DEL GESU’ NUOVO pp. 17-18)


The palace is located in front of the other, Prince formwork, General Francis Statella, then also purchased largely by others, near the large square of Jesus again, in which, in place where it was was erected in 1703 a monument to Philip V then shot down by followers of Charles VI in 1707, was built – and still is found – the spire bearing the statue of the Immaculate. In the construction of the majestic portal alternate, decoratively finished, the dark piperno, feature stone Neapolitan derived from consolidated lava eruptions of Vesuvius, and friezes of white marble: the wide courtyard, spacious and comfortable the whole piperno main staircase, spacious rooms and bright.

The palace was remembered by Giacomo Casanova in his “Memoirs” for lavish receptions, lunches and dinners nightly based “macaroni and seafood, and especially for the long nights, which, with great discretion, there is spent, in one of its many rooms on the third floor, at the table, by the owner of Duke Pignatelli Monte Leone, from Carafa Duke of Maddaloni, by Statella prince of the formwork and other Neapolitan aristocrats.It was only in 1832, by deed dated June 1, for notary Casale di Napoli, the Prince Don Diego Pignatelli, Duke of Monteleone, and his other relatives, dispossessed him, he was able to receive the cumbersome procedures of all time, the balance of the price, with obvious benefit of the purchaser Degas.