In the 16th century Sixtus V bisected Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere with a cross-wing to house the Apostolic Library in suitable magnificence. The 16th and 17th centuries saw other privately endowed libraries assembled in Rome: the Vallicelliana, formed from the books of Saint Filippo Neri, with other distinguished libraries such as that of Cesare Baronio, the Biblioteca Angelica founded by the Augustinian Angelo Rocca, which was the only truly public library in Counter-Reformation Rome ; the Biblioteca Alessandrina with which Pope Alexander VII endowed the University of Rome ; the Biblioteca Casanatense of the Cardinal Girolamo Casanate ; and finally the Biblioteca Corsiniana founded by the bibliophile Clement XII Corsini and his nephew Cardinal Neri Corsini, still housed in Palazzo Corsini in via della Lungara. The Republic of Venice patronized the foundation of the Biblioteca Marciana, based on the library of Cardinal Basilios Bessarion. In Milan Cardinal Federico Borromeo founded the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

He also built the facade for the family palace in the Via della Vigna Nuova, known as the Palazzo Rucellai, though it is not exactly clear what his role as designer was.

He was asked by the consuls of the Guild of Wool to complete an unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom, to be placed in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

His projects in Rome included: the church and piazza at Santa Maria della Pace ; the Via del Corso, Piazza Colonna and associated buildings ; reworking of the Porta del Popolo, the Piazza del Popolo and Santa Maria del Popolo ; Piazza San Pietro, the Scala Regia and interior embellishments in the Vatican Palace and St Peters ; Sant ' Andrea al Quirinale ; part of the Palazzo del Quirinale ; the obelisk and elephant in Piazza della Minerva.

View of Palazzo della Pilotta in the Piazza della Pace.

Much of the Palazzo della Pilotta — situated not far ( half a mile ) from the train station — was destroyed.

* The Palazzo della Pilotta ( 1583 ).

In his territorial aggrandizement of the Papal States, Sixtus IV's niece's son Cardinal Raffaele Riario, for whom the Palazzo della Cancelleria was constructed, was a leader in the failed " Pazzi conspiracy " of 1478 to assassinate both Lorenzo de ' Medici and his brother Giuliano and replace them in Florence with Sixtus IV's other nephew, Girolamo Riario.

Francesco Salviati, Archbishop of Pisa and a main organizer of the plot, was hanged on the walls of the Florentine Palazzo della Signoria.

* Casa d ' Arte Nespolo, Palazzo della Permanenente, Milan, 1995

Written in the West, in conjunction with the publication, Written in the West, Munich: Schirmer / Mosel ( 1987 ), touring exhibition: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris ( 1986 ); Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra ( 1987 ); Palazzo della Triennale di Milano ( 1988 ); Film Society of Miami ( 1988 ); Goethe Institut, Stockholm ( 1988 ); Goethe Institut, Copenhagen ( 1988 ); Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche ( 1990 ); Städtische Galerie Schwarzes Kloster, Freiburg ( Breisgau ) ( 1992 )

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* The 3, 000 seat Teatro Farnese, the first permanent proscenium theatre, is built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy.

Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, the statue was instead placed in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504.

In Piranesi's view, the palazzo on the right is the Palazzo della Sacra Consulta, originally a villa built upon the ruins of the Baths of Constantine, which was adapted by Sixtus V as a civil and criminal court.

The Constitutional Court of Italy in Palazzo della Consulta, is among the Quirinal Hill government buildings in Rome.

* The Baroque Palazzo della Giudecca or Casa Ciambra.

* The Palazzo della Civilta Italiana was very closely modelled on the Colosseum.

* The Palazzo della Ragione with the Torre dell ' Orologio (" Clock Tower ")

Palazzo della Ragione.

* Palazzo della Consulta, seat of the Constitutional Court of Italy

Sometimes, the name Consulta is used as a metonym for it, because its sessions are held in Palazzo della Consulta in Rome.

Today, the Palazzo hosts the offices and the apartments of the Head of State and, in its long side along via XX Settembre ( the so-called Manica Lunga ), the apartments that were furnished for each visit of foreign monarchs or dignitaries.

* Palazzo Pretorio, next to the Duomo, of the 12th century, with a bell tower ( Torre Civica ) of the thirteenth century ( it now hosts a collection of baroque paintings of religious themes ).

* The Palazzo del Podestà which hosts the museum of Tazio Nuvolari

The Palazzo del Governo hosts the provincial library, with over 600, 000 volumes.

Since the 19th century, Velletri hosts a Philharmonic Concert, on the Palazzo Comunale.

MPS headquarters in the Palazzo Salimbeni in Siena hosts an art collection and a large number of priceless historical documents spanning the centuries of its existence.

The medieval Clavesana stronghold hosts the remarkable Ethnographic Museum of Western Liguria and the Palazzo Viale-Citati.

The city hosts the Palazzo Hercolani, with decorations dating from the 19th century ; containing the artwork La Beata Vergine del Fuoco con i Santi Mercuriale, Pellegrino, Marcolino e Valeriano by Italian painter Pompeo Randi.

The Aule, informally known as " Palazzo Rosso " ( Red Building ), hosts six classrooms on its three floors, and is commonly used by Economics and Communications faculties.

The Quirinal Hill is today identified with the Palazzo del Quirinale, the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic and one of the symbols of the State.

* Palazzo dei Priori, erected in 1333, has been the seat of the city's magistratures until today.

Corto Maltese ( whose name is possibly derived from the Venetian Corte Maltese-Courtyard of the Maltese, today Corte Contarini del Bovolo, next to Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo ) is a laconic sea captain adventuring during the early 20th century ( 1900-1920s ).

* Palazzo Cobenzl, today seat of the archbishops.

The Palace of the Genoese podestà Montano de Marinis, known as the Palazzo del Comune ( Palace of the Municipality ) in the Genoese period and built in 1316, still stands in ruins on Banker Sokak ( the historic Rue Camondo ); a narrow side street that's parallel to the neighbouring Bankalar Caddesi ( Banks Street ) which was the financial center of the Ottoman Empire and has rows of Ottoman-era bank buildings, including the headquarters of the Ottoman Central Bank, which is today the Ottoman Bank Museum.

These frescoes remain today and are the most remarkable feature of the Palazzo.

Part of the Palazzo today houses the Museo Civico del Palazzo Te, endowed by the publisher Arnoldo Mondadori.

Meanwhile he had completed frescoes c. 1604 – 05 in the church of Sant ' Onofrio, feigned stucco decoration of 1606 – 07 in the Palazzo Mattei, a large scene of The Flagellation of St. Andrew at San Gregorio Magno, painted in competition with a fresco by Reni that faces it, and a ceiling with Scenes from the Life of Diana, 1609, in the Villa Odescalchi at Bassano di Sutri ( today Bassano Romano ).

* Palazzo Ricchieri, today seat of the Town Art Museum.

Part of the Palazzo Barbarigo is today a showroom and shop of Murano glass.

Cardinal Odoardo is probably best known today for commissioning the Bolognese artist Annibale Carracci to fresco the Camerino in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome.

The Palazzo today is one of the Capitoline Museums, which serve a double duty as museums and city government buildings.

Their urban palace, the Palazzo Barberini, ( completed in 1633 by Bernini ), today houses Italy's Galleria Nazionale d ' Arte Antica ( National Gallery of Ancient Art ).

His main achievements include the project for the new city of Livorno, the decoration of Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens with the famous grotto, as well as the Parco di Pratolino of which little remains today, except for a giant sculpture by Giambologna, representing the Colossus of the Apennines.

The bust of Hispania | Hispanic Roman Emperor Hadrian, lover of Antinous can be found today in the Palazzo dei Conservatori.

* Center for Italian and French Studies-The Center for Italian and French Studies is located in the 16th-century Palazzo Capizucchi, the chapel of which is today the Center's Conference Room.

Main sights include the remains of a castle held by the Malatesta family, and the Palazzo Marcosanti, a former fortress in the countryside, turned today into a tourist resort.