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which is identical with that given by Franzini. It would be interesting
to know who was the architect of the original building.
We may note that the Odescalchi continued to take an interest in the
Confratemita della Morte—so much so, that Baldassare subscribed
noo scudi towards the rebuilding of the church in or about 1732 (Archivio,
cit. p. 19).
I may also add that Lanciani (Storia degli Scavi, i. 213) speaks of a
Villa Odescalchi on the Janiculum which, in 1561, lay on one side of the
Villa of the Turini da Pescia (now Villa Lante), while the Villa Riario lay
on the other ; but there is no indication of it in his Forma Urbis, and its
position and extent seem not to be more accurately known.
In the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries they possessed
a villa or garden on the Via FJaminia, just outside the Porta del Popolo,
on the right. It is mentioned by Francois Deseine, Description de Rome
(1690), ii. 8, as being in process of decoration by Don Livio Odescalchi:
the edition of 1713 (Rome Moderns, i. 8) adds that there was ‘ a small
enchanted palace ’ on the top of the hill, and a fine garden on the
lower level, where the new Academy of the Arcadia held its meetings.
Over the gateway, which is attributed to Onorio Longhi (Vasi,
Magnificenze di Roma, vol. x. p. xvii), was; the inscription ‘Livio
Odescalcho Litterarum bonarumque Artium Patrono munificentissimo
Arcades C. V. C. Conditori atque Instauratori suo posuere Anno
MDCCXII.’ (Cancellieri, Solenni Possessi, 305, n. 8). The ‘ new Academy
of the Arcadia ’ was a schismatic body, which, on January 1st, 1714, took
the name of Accademia Quirina. Later on, the name of Don Livio, who
had died in 1713, was inscribed de novo in the list of members of the
old Academy, which attempted to remove the inscription.1
The villa was bought by Camillo Borghese when he enlarged the
Villa Borghese in 1828 (Canina, Nuove Fabbriche della Villa Borghese, 9),
and incorporated in it.
1 G. Biroccini in Arcadia, i. (1889), 50. The Academy had met in 1705-7 in the Villa
Giustiniani, which lay immediately behind it (Nolli, Pianta di Roma, 1748) : cf. A. Monad
(to whose kindness I owe these references) in Giornale Arcadico, 1914, fasc. 9-11. Cf, also
Boni in Boll. d’Arte, viii. (1914), 369.
Postscript.
Fig. 1 is actually taken from a copy of the 1640 edition in my own
collection, but there are no variations of any importance.