A Jacobite Gazetteer - Lazio

Palazzo Pettelli entrance The town of Caprarola is located about 50 kilometres north-west of Rome. The main street Via Filippo Nicolai rises up through the town towards the famous Palazzo Farnese. In 1725 King James III and VIII visited the town and stayed in Palazzo Pettelli located at Via Filippo Nicolai 70 (on the left side as one climbs the street, just above the street on the right leading to Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele and the Chiesa della Madonna della Consolazione). The building now houses several apartments as well as a school (Istituto Maestre Pie Venerini). Above the round arched doorway is a Latin inscription within an elaborate Baroque frame: 1 IACOBO III. MAGNÆ BRITANNIÆ REGI ET CLEMENTINÆ CONIVGI AVGVSTIS PER DIES XV. HOSPITIBVS ANNO IVB. MDCCXXV. LAVRENTIVS MARIA PETTELLI I.V.D. G. A. M. P.   To James III, King of Great Britain, and to Clementina, [his] wife, august guests for fifteen days in the Jubilee Year 1725: Lorenzo Maria Pettelli, Doctor of Canon and Civil Laws, raised [this] monument of grateful affection.

Palazzo Pettelli inscription

Palazzo Sebastiani In 1740 the Prince of Wales (later King Charles III) visited the town and stayed in Palazzo Sebastiani. This palace is located at Via Filippo Nicolai, 19-25 (on the right side as one climbs the street, almost at the top, at the intersection with Via di Santa Maria). King Charles Emanuel IV of Sardinia (later King Charles IV) stayed in the same palace in 1803; according to one source an inscription on the first floor records the visit. 2 Notes 1 I have surmised that the abbreviations in the last two lines (I. V. D. G. A. M. P.) represent the words "iuris utriusque doctor, grati animi monumentum posuit". 2 Luciano Passini, "Caprarola ", http://www.icscaprarola.it/territorio/caprarola.html. The inscription is presumably inside the building, since it is not on the street facade. Another source ("Storia di Caprarola", http://www.viterbonelweb.it/provincia/caprar.htm) says that the visit of Charles IV was in 1809. Image 1 (Palazzo Pettelli entrance): © Noel S. McFerran 2002. Image 2 (Palazzo Pettelli inscription): © Noel S. McFerran 2002. Image 3 (Palazzo Sebastiani): © Noel S. McFerran 2002.