Pamphili

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The Pamphili (often with the final long i orthography, Pamphilj) are one of the Papal families deeply entrenched in Roman politics of the 16th and 17th centuries. The Pamphilj originated in Gubbio and went to Rome under the pontificate of Innocent VIII (1484 – 1492). The Pamphilj pope was Innocent X, who reigned from 1644-1655.

Palazzo Pamphilj, by the architects Girolamo Rainaldi and Francesco Borromini, is located in the heart of Rione Parione, the Pamphili neighborhood of Rome, south of the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone in Piazza Navona. From 1652, on Saturdays and Sundays in August, the piazza was turned into a lake to celebrate the Pamphili family, a festival that was suppressed in 1866. Today, the palace functions as the Brazilian Embassy in Rome. The tomb of Innocent X is located in Sant'Agnese.

The Pamphilj bought the baronial palace in Valmontone, a town near Palestrina (Rome) in the year 1634: Camillo Pamphilj was determined to create a sort of new “ideal city”, so the palace and the main church were rebuilt and decorated by important baroque artists, like the architect Mattia de Rossi (who rose to prominence under the mentorship of Bernini), and the painters Pier Francesco Mola, Gaspard Dughet, Guglielmo Cortese, Francesco Cozza and Mattia Preti.

Olimpia Maidalchini, a resident of the Palazzo Pamphilj, was the mother of Camillo Pamphilj who renounced his cardinalate to marry Olimpia Aldobrandini, widow of Paolo Borghese. Through his marriage, he came into the possession of the Palazzo Aldobrandini, now known as the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj.