Luigi Braschi Onesti Explained

Luigi Braschi Onesti
Spouse:Constanza Falconieri
Noble Family:Braschi
Father:Girolamo Onesti
Mother:Giulia Braschi dei Bandi
Birth Date:1746
Birth Place:Cesena, Papal States (now Italy)
Death Place:Rome, Papal States (now Italy)
Religion:Roman Catholicism

Luigi Braschi Onesti (1745– 9 February 1816), duca di Nemi, was a nephew of Pope Pius VI, who granted him his dukedom.

Life and family

Luigi's mother Giulia Braschi was Pius's sister, and his father was count Girolamo Onesti. His younger brother was Romoaldo Braschi-Onesti, Cardinal and Camerlengo.

On Luigi's marriage to the richest lady of the Falconieri family, he was granted permission by Pius to build Palazzo Braschi off Piazza Navona, and from 1787 and 1795 he built another neoclassical Palazzo Braschi at Terracina, as a private residence for his uncle.

Construction on his Rome palazzo was suspended from February 1798 – 1802 during the Napoleonic occupation of the city, when the French occupied the house and confiscated the recently acquired antiquities Onesti had housed there. Braschi Onesti moved into the palazzo in 1809, when Napoleon declared Rome an imperial city, and was declared mayor of Rome, though the palazzo was still unfinished at his death seven years later.

Collection

Some of his antiquities were purchased by the Crown Prince of Bavaria, later King Ludwig I and are conserved at the Glyptothek that he built in Munich.

The Braschi collection included:

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: (#51) A Monumental Marble Figure of an Emperor, Roman Imperial, mid 1st Century A.D., restored in the 18th/early 19th Century as the Emperor Lucius Verus . Sothebys.com. 30 August 2023.