Erected in 1546 by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignoli and finished inside by a pupil of Ottaviano Mascherino, the author of the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome, the building, which belonged to the Bolognese humanist Achille Bocchi (1488-1562), soon became the seat of the academy he founded.
The building is characterized by a high plinth, the massive cut stone of which is located on the entrance door and on the four windows of the first floor. The sixteenth-century frescoes by Prospero Fontana have been preserved inside. In the center of the facade is an ancient plaque with an inscription in Latin: "Achilles Bocci founded this house on a blessed stone; so that noxious rains, noxious currents, and noxious winds touch him. 3 days before August Ides (August 11.1545"
The plinth is engraved with two inscriptions in Latin and Hebrew (a very rare occurrence in Bologna): the first (taken from the 1st Epistle of Horace) reads: "You shall be king, they say, if you do right"; the second (taken from the 119th psalm of the Bible) instead says: "Lord, deliver me from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. "
The building is characterized by a high plinth, the massive cut stone of which is located on the entrance door and on the four windows of the first floor. The sixteenth-century frescoes by Prospero Fontana have been preserved inside. In the center of the facade is an ancient plaque with an inscription in Latin: "Achilles Bocci founded this house on a blessed stone; so that noxious rains, noxious currents, and noxious winds touch him. 3 days before August Ides (August 11.1545"
The plinth is engraved with two inscriptions in Latin and Hebrew (a very rare occurrence in Bologna): the first (taken from the 1st Epistle of Horace) reads: "You shall be king, they say, if you do right"; the second (taken from the 119th psalm of the Bible) instead says: "Lord, deliver me from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. "
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