Palazzo Ricci - EN

A) TRANSLATION OF THE LICENCE PLATE

The first embryo of the palace, formed by a small non-habitable building and a vegetable garden, dates back to the seventeenth century. “The Baron’s Palace”, as it is commonly called in Casoli, was partly built and inhabited at the end of the eighteenth century, while the completion took place with the elevation of 1813. It is likely that the loggia on the rear garden (which converted the palace into a villa) was built after the earthquake of 1871 as a buttress for the consolidation of the building, which thus assumed its current appearance. The location of the Palace has the role of pivot in the urban layout between the Ancient Village and the expansion of the country in Piazza del Popolo and, then, on Corso Vittorio Emanue-le II and Piazza e Corso Umberto I, which began as a result of the demographic re-volution of the second half of the eighteenth century. Of the other houses facing the square is to remember the palace of the De Cinque family (opposite that of the ba-rons), not so much for the architectural aspect, but for historical reasons. The mem-bers of the two families for a century, from 1895 to the fall of the First Republic, do-minated the political scene of Casoli, holding the offices of mayor and power or having their satellites elected. The two families had deputies, senators, undersecre-taries of State, other public positions in local authorities, men of culture and profes-sionals (notaries, doctors, lawyers). One of them, Ferdinando De Cinque, was part of the defense college of Nenni and Mussolini when they were sent to trial for the violent protest actions against the Libyan expedition in 1911 decided by the Giolitti government. In the first half of the twentieth century, during the period of Baron Mo-ses Ricci, the Palace had become the center of gravity of the life of the community. There political meetings were held, there postulants were welcomed in search of jobs, there casolans with private problems were received in search of advice or his resolving intervention. Together with his wife Donna Aurelia, daughter of the painter Francesco Paolo Michetti, during the Second World War in Casoli, Don Moses ho-sted in his palace the generals Kesselring and Montgomery. On January 14, 2020, the Ricci family sold the property to a group of American investors who began the transformation of the historic building to create a luxury private residence club.

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