The palace is now occupied by a number of different offices.
Notes
1 Calendar of the Stuart Papers, Historical Manuscripts Commission (London: 1904), VII, 645-646.
2 Ibid., VII, 662. This was the agreed sum for each of the first three years commencing January 15, 1719. 1,100 scudi were paid to the Marchese Giovanni Battista Muti, while the remaining 500 scudi were paid to his mother the Marchesa Alesandra Millini Muti.
3 Felice Guglielmi, "Gli Ultimi Stuart ad Albano", Castelli Romani: Vicende, Uomini, Folklore 28 (Marzo 1983): 38. This may have been the annual rent at a later date.
4 The first of these palazzetti was at the time occupied by Count Musignani. The lower part of the second of these palazzetti was occupied by the Marchese Giovanni Battista Muti, and the upper part by the Abbé Millini (presumably the brother, or at least a relative, of Muti's mother). The two houses seem not to have been the property of the Marchese Giovanni Battista Muti, but to have been leased by him; the Apostolic Camera paid an additional annual rent of 36 scudi for the first house to Signor Giacinto Manni, and an additional annual rent of 60 scudi for the second house to the Marchese Girolamo Muti.
5 Francis John Angus Skeet, The Life and Letters of H.R.H. Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, Only Child of Charles III, King of Great Britain, Scotland, France and Ireland (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), 127.
6 Rossella Pantanella, "Palazzo Muti a Piazza SS. Apostoli, Residenza degli Stuart a Roma", Storia dell' Arte 84 (1995): 307-328. There are a number of documents in the Archivio di Stato di Roma and in the Archivio Segreto Vaticano which record payments made for this work; a number of these are reprinted as an appendix to this article.
7 Doris Wild, "Charles Mellin ou Nicolas Poussin", Gazette des Beaux-Arts IIème période, 68 (octobre 1966): 177-214. Charles Mellin was born in Nancy about 1597, and died in Rome in 1649.
8 Pantanella, 308, 312-314.
9 In Rome the most common renderings of the Royal Arms are those of King Henry IX and I when he was still Duke of York, i.e. the Royal Arms differenced with the crescent, the standard mark of cadency for a second son. Pantanella seems to have misinterpreted this mark of cadency for an actual heraldic charge.
Image 1 (Facade on Piazza dei Santi Apostoli): Ferruccio Lombardi, Roma: Palazzi, Palazzeti, Case, Progetto per un Inventario, 1200-1870 (Rome: Edilstampa, 1991), 83.
Image 2 (Memorial to King Henry IX and I): © Noel S. McFerran 2001.
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