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Sixtus V, Giacomo Della Porta and Domenico Fontana and the birth of the centre of Rome
In the last decades of the sixteenth century Rome was completely transformed, especially for the work of three truly exceptional characters, one from the Marche and two from Ticino: Sixtus V, Giacomo Della Porta and Domenico Fontana. The first was cardinal Felice Peretti, elected pope in May 1585 with the Read more…