Aggiunte all’opera di Filippo Raguzzini. “Il Nuovo Seminario Romano nella città di Tivoli, et altri casini de’ particolari nell’istessa città”

In the curriculum submitted by Filippo Raguzzini to King Charles of Bourbon of Naples in 1736, is listed the “New Roman Seminary in Tivoli,” which the author of this study identifies as the large building now housing the town’s Court. This attribution is substantiated by numerous stylistic features of the structure, which was commissioned by the Society of Jesus between 1729 and 1736—coinciding with the construction of the five palaces of Piazza Sant’Ignazio in Rome. In the second part of the article, the author examines the “other private houses in the same town” mentioned in the curriculum and identifies design elements characteristic of Raguzzini in a villa commissioned by Cardinal Giovan Battista Salerno. This villa, constructed between 1724 and 1729, is attributed to Raguzzini based on stylistic analysis and the client’s connections. Cardinal Salerno, a Jesuit, had ties to Naples and was likely associated with the circle of Pope Benedict XIII Orsini and Cardinal Nicolò Coscia, the architect’s patron. The two buildings are located a short distance from each other along the road that, leaving the main town gate. This suburban area, now irrevocably altered by 20th-century urban development, valued for its environmental and archaeological significance, was particularly popular among members of the Arcadia Academy, which included numerous Jesuit clerics