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Farrattini Family


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The Farrattini family was one of the most important in Amelia from early in the 16th century.

Bartolomeo II Farrattini (died 1534)

Pope Clement VII appointed Bartolomeo Farrattini as the Prefect of the Fabbrica di San Pietro in Rome and as Bishop of Sora in 1531 and of Chiusi in 1533. 

Bartolomeo II commissioned Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane to design Palazzo Farrattini.   There would have been close links between them, since Antonio was the capomaestro at St Peter’s at this time.  Palazzo Farrattini is a scaled-down version of his more famous Palazzo Farnese, which he had built for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in Rome.  (In fact, Palazzo Farrattini probably reflects the original design (1517) for Palazzo Farnese, which was redesigned on a grander scale after Farnese’s election as Pope Paul III in 1534).

The heirs of Bartolomeo II, his nephews Baldo, Simone Pietro and Fulvio, commissioned his funerary monument in the Cappella Farrattini in the Duomo (see below).

Baldo Farrattini (died 1567)

Baldo Farrattini, the nephew of Bartolomeo II, was Bishop of Amelia from 1558 until his resignation in 1562.  Pope Pius V (1566-72) appointed him as Governor of Rome.

He commissioned the Cappella Farrattini in the Duomo as the family’s funerary chapel.  He almost certainly commissioned his own monument there, together with the altarpiece of the chapel.  As noted above, he and his brother commissioned the monument there to Bartolomeo II.

Bartolomeo III Farrattini (died 1606)

Bartolomeo III Farrattini succeeded Baldo, his uncle, as Bishop of Amelia, resigning in 1571.  He then built Palazzo Farrattini in Piazza di Spagna, Rome.  He was made a cardinal in 1606 but died before he could receive his red hat of office. 

He was originally buried is in the Cappella Farrattini in the Duomo (see above): his tomb has been lost but the bust that survives in the chapel probably formed part of it. 


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