Collegio Clementino

The Collegio Clementino is a palace in Rome, central Italy, sited between the Strada del'Orso and the banks of the Tiber. It was founded by Pope Clement VIII in 1595, to host Slavonian refugees. Giacomo della Porta was commissioned to erect a suitable building to house them, which would be one of the aged architect's last projects. On February 25, 1601, Urban VIII^{[disputed – discuss]} shifted the Slavs to Loreto and refounded the Collegio Clementino as an elite school for young noblemen of every nation and the richest families in Rome. The musical tradition of the Collegio Clementino remained strong: Alessandro Scarlatti wrote oratorios for Carnival seasons and came up from Naples to oversee their production.^[1]

Collegio Clementino
The Piazza Nicosia and Collegio Clementino (centre and right) in 1748. To the left is the Palazzo Aragona Gonzaga.
General information
Architectural style	Renaissance
Location	Rome, Italy
Coordinates	Aragona Gonzaga 41.903°N 12.475°E / 41.903; 12.475

Instruction "in all the sciences and the gentlemanly arts" according to a description of 1761, was entrusted to brothers of the Somaschi, a religious order of teaching brothers established during the Counter-Reformation, which had been authorized by Pope Pius V in 1568; they proved themselves expert in establishing seminaries. In the 17th and 18th century the Collegio Clementino produced Pope Benedict XIV, and numerous cardinals, including Domenico Silvio Passionei,^[2] Francesco Guidobono Cavalchini,^[3] Bartolomeo Pacca,^[4] Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata,^[5] the mathematician Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano, and the Pacific explorer Alessandro Malaspina.^[6]

Here Carlo Spinola and Domenico Quarteironi taught the young polymath and inventor, Raimondo di Sangro, prince of Sansevero.^[7]

The college was disbanded in 1873.^[8]

Notes and references

1. "A Scarlatti".
2. Pierluigi Galletti (1762). Memorie per servire alla storia della vita del cardinale Domenico Passionei (in Italian). Roma: Generoso Salomoni. pp. 5–6.
3. Gaetano Moroni (1841). Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica. Vol. XI. Venezia: Tipografia Emiliana. p. 5.
4. John McClintock (1894). Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Vol. 7. Harper & Brothers. p. 509.
5. Galea, Michael (October–December 1974). "Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata: A Maltese Cardinal" (PDF). Scientia (Malta). 37 (3): 167–85. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
6. John Kendrick (1999). Alejandro Malaspina: Portrait of a Visionary. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 978-0-7735-6768-9.
7. "Raimondo de Sangro, Museo Cappella Sansevero, Barocco Napoletano, Cristo velato, massoneria, tempio massonico, arte, cultura, tempo libero, Napoli, Naples, museum, musei, museums, Chapel, Chapels, culture, art, tourism, spare time, holidays, travels, Neapolitan Baroque, Veiled Christ, masterpieces, photos, guide, guida, temple, massonery, massonic, vacations, trip, travel, beauty, Italy, Italia". www.museosansevero.it. Archived from the original on 13 September 2005. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
8. Kendrick, p. 9.

Bibliography

• Migliorini, Luigi Mascilli (1992). I Somaschi (in Italian). Roma: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. pp. 9–12, 92–94.
• Zambarelli, Luigi (1936). Il nobile Pontificio Collegio Clementino di Roma (in Italian). Roma: Istituto Grafico Tiberino.

External links

• Collegio Clementino: described in a 1761 engraving by Giuseppe Vasi
• La Storia dei Somaschi Archived 2021-04-21 at the Wayback Machine: (in Italian)