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2 de fev. de 2017 · The long and active life of Alessandro Torlonia gives us a way of looking both at the transformation of banking activity during the nineteenth century and at the principal events of the Risorgimento and the process of Italian unification, a major change in Europe’s geopolitical landscape; Torlonia was, in effect, the witness to a century.
The Torlonia Collection is known as the most important private collection of ancient art in the world. It is an exceptional assembly of works: sarcophagi, busts and Greco-Roman statues. resulting from acquisitions of the most prominent collections of Rome’s patrician families, as well as from excavation finds made on the Family’s own estates. It is a collection of collections, which, over ...
Villa Albani Torlonia fu realizzata a metà del XVIII secolo, dall’architetto Carlo Marchionni, secondo un progetto fortemente influenzato da figure di rilievo tra cui: Giovanni Battista Nolli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi e Johann Joachim Winckelmann per ospitare la prestigiosa raccolta di antichità, curata da quest’ultimo, del cardinale Alessandro Albani, nipote di papa Clemente XI.
Em 1832, Alessandro Torlonia, sucedendo ao defunto pai Giovanni, encarregou Giovan Battista Caretti de continuar os trabalhos na villa. Os gostos particulares do príncipe determinaram a construção de um Templo de Saturno , de Falsas Ruínas e da Tribuna com Fonte, além da Caffe-House , da Capela de Sant'Alessandro e do Anfiteatro, actualmente já inexistentes.
Biografía. Alessandro Lecquio es hijo de Clemente Lecquio Di Assaba (1925-1971) y de Alessandra Torlonia y Borbón (1936-2014). Su padre, un reconocido playboy dedicado a la producción cinematográfica en Latinoamérica, era hijo de Francesco Lecquio di Assaba (1892-1943), el que fuera embajador de la Italia fascista en Madrid durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. [1]
5 de abr. de 2023 · Sandra Torlonia fue una de las primas preferidas del rey don Juan Carlos. En su juventud se rumoreó que se casaría con Balduino de Bélgica, pero finalmente lo hizo con el conde Clemente Lequio ...
This book provides a vivid biography of a towering Italian banker, pioneer and entrepreneur. It weaves the entrepreneurial ventures of Alessandro Torlonia (1800-1886) through the narratives of business and politics in the Nineteenth century, the growth of European financial markets and the decline of Papal power during the Italian Risorgimento.
