Palazzo Bonucci Baldeschi

(1560 - 1626)

The jurist Filippo Baldeschi acquired this site in 1560.  An inscription on the facade in Via Baldeschi records that he built the palace in 1563, although this date probably applies to the completion of the first floor of the part of the palace that faces this street.  Filippo probably employed Ludovico Scalza as his architect: Scalza certainly worked on the older palace (later Palazzo Baldeschi Cennini) that belonged to his relative, Pietro.

Filippo used the first floor of the palace as a law school.  After his death in 1567, his heirs commissioned a series of frescoes for the Sala dei Legisti from and Silla Piccinini and Pietro Rancanellithat depicted Filippo himself and his illustrious forebears (including Baldo degli Ubaldi). 

It seems that this part of the palace was complete by 1608 but that an extension to the rear, which was designed to offer separate accomodation, was still incomplete at that point.  Fabio Danzetta bought the palace in 1623 and completed the work on the extension in 1626.  (The division between its two parts is still clearly visible).   He sold the palace to Alessandro della Corgna in 1645.

The subsequent history of the building is unclear until the early 18th century, when it passed to the Righetti family.  They demolished buildings behind it to open up the view and surrounded the property with metal railings.  It was sold to Leopoldo Bonucci, a Perugian industrialist, in 1834 and passed to the charitable Fondazione Orintia Carletti Bonucci in 1968.

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