A Jacobite Gazetteer - Bologna

Palazzo Fantuzzi


Palazzo Fantuzzi facade
Facade

This palace is located at Via San Vitale 23. It has been described as "the most singular and anticonformist of the great patrician residences of the Renaissance in Bologna". 1 Until the end of the eighteenth century the palace was the residence of the Fantuzzi family.

King James III and VIII and his family used the palace as their Bolognese residence on several occasions in the late 1720's. 2 James lived here until January 1729; his sons stayed until April 1729; his wife Clementina stayed until May 1729. 3

Palazzo Fantuzzi staircase
Scalone
Palazzo Fantuzzi staircase
Scalone
Palazzo Fantuzzi courtyard
Cortile
Palazzo Fantuzzi courtyard
Cortile

Notes

1 Giancarlo Roversi, Palazzi e Case Nobili del '500 a Bologna: La Storia, le Famiglie, le Opere d'Arte (Bologna: Grafis, 1986), 83: "la più singolare e anticonformista fra le grandi residenze patrizie della Rinascenza a Bologna".

2 Cf. Roversi, 95; Maurizio Ascari, James III in Bologna: An Illustrated Story. Royal Stuart Papers. (London: Royal Stuart Society, 2001), 31-32.

3 Frank McLynn, Charles Edward Stuart: A Tragedy in Many Acts (London: Routledge, 1988), 28-30.

Image 1 (Facade): © Noel S. McFerran 2004.

Image 2 (Scalone): Giancarlo Roversi, Palazzi e Case Nobili del '1500 a Bologna: La Storia, le Famiglie, le Opere d'Arte (Bologna: Grafis, 1986), 90.

Image 3 (Scalone): © Noel S. McFerran 2006.

Image 4 (Cortile): Roversi, 97.

Image 5 (Cortile): © Noel S. McFerran 2006.


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