Collegio Ghislieri

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The Collegio Ghislieri was a building in Rome, seat of the eponymous charitable institution, important for architectural and historical reasons. The College was founded in 1656 by Giuseppe Ghislieri and was meant to host 24 boys of the decayed pontifical nobility for free during high school. Placed under the protection of the duke Salviati, the college was closed in 1928. The building which hosted the college, possibly work of Carlo Maderno, was demolished in the 1930s. Its façade on Via Giulia and some decorations have survived, incorporated in the structure of the Liceo classico Virgilio, built on the same site between 1936 and 1939 after a design by Marcello Piacentini.

Location: The building was located in Rome, in the Regola Rione, about halfway down via Giulia (at the n. 38), in an area devastated by the demolitions started in 1938 for the construction of a road between Ponte Mazzini and Corso Vittorio Emanuele, never built because of the war. To the south it bordered with vicolo dello struzzo.

History: In 1656 Giuseppe Ghislieri (1570–1656), a renowned physician and member of the family to which Pope Pius V (r. 1566–1572) had belonged, on his deathbed destined all his...