{"id":6336,"date":"2021-08-20T00:03:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/piazza-bologni-the-cathedral-and-the-archbishops-palace\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:11","slug":"piazza-bologni-the-cathedral-and-the-archbishops-palace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/palermo-and-the-viceroys\/piazza-bologni-the-cathedral-and-the-archbishops-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Piazza Bologni, the Cathedral and the archbishop’s palace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Piazza Bologni, the Cathedral and the archbishop’s palace <\/h1>\n
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\"Cattedrale\"The Viceroy makes another stop at Piazza Bologni. The square takes its name from the family of Palermo magistrates who live there. Finally, the viceroy arrives at the cathedral (Figure 1). Nowadays it is now impossible to include the main church of Palermo<\/a> among examples of Baroque art: outside, the appearance is certainly medieval, the decorative layout was designed in 1767 by Ferdinando FugaFerdinando Fuga (1699-1782) was an architect from Florence, but active mainly in Rome (Palazzo della Consulta<\/em>, Church of Santa Maria dell’Orazione e Morte<\/em> and the fa\u00e7ade of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, etc.) and in Naples (Real Albergo dei Poveri<\/em>, the fa\u00e7ade of the church of the Girolamini<\/em>, etc.). Over the years his style gradually shifted from Baroque to Neoclassical. He died in Naples before being able to implement his project of the restoration of the Cathedral of Palermo.<\/span><\/a>. But the cathedral is the place where the most important political Baroque ceremony took place, the taking of possession, the oath of allegiance to the laws and customs of the kingdom<\/a> and the blessing of the viceroy by the Archbishop. To celebrate this solemnity the decorations on the outside are not spared, while inside a rigid protocol regulates the positions of those present:<\/p>\n

\"Cattedrale\u00abPigliata Sua Eccellenza l’acqua benedetta dataci Don Francesco Abisso Ciantro d’essa chiesa, intonato il Te Deum laudamus dall’istesso Ciantro si incominci\u00f2 a sparare una gran quantit\u00e0 di folgore, e con sono di organi e musica si sequit\u00f2 il Te Deum laudamus e doppo che detto Archivescono hebbe ricevuto Sua Eccellenza si camin\u00f2 verso l’altare maggiore […]; arrivati all’altare Sua Eccellenza si ingenocchi\u00f2 sopra un sgabello d’altezza d’un palmo sotto il quale era uno strato di brocato a fare oratione, e finito il Te Deum laudamus si alz\u00f2 in piedi e si copr\u00ec, in questo fece dare dal suo Secretario la patente di Sua Maest\u00e0 al Prothonotaro del Regno e doppo d’haverla letta ad alta voce si accost\u00f2 a Sua Eccellenza il quale inginocchiatosi con ambidue li ginocchi, scoperto, posto le mani supra del libro dell’evangeli in mano del Prothonotaro suddetto giur\u00f2 nella forma solita, et alzatosi in piedi, havendosi coperto se li fece innanzi il Pretore con il libro de privileggi della Citt\u00e0 e Sua Eccellenza coss\u00ec coperto in piedi posta una mano supra quello giur\u00f2 per l’osservanza di essi del modo che hanno giurato li suoi predecessori, e fatto il suddetto torn\u00f2 di nuovo detta musica, e suoni d’organo con sparamento di folgori.\u00bb<\/p>\n

\"PalazzoOnce the oath was pronounced, always with a large following, the viceroy leaves the cathedral. Continuing on his way to his residence in Palermo, he passes in front of the archbishop’s palace. In this case it is also a fifteenth-century building (Figure 3), but during the seventeenth century, on the fa\u00e7ade of the building there are multiple open and decorated windows: a physical sign, tangible evidence of ecclesiastical power that wants to expand, to be a reference point in the political life of time and that does not hesitate to be in competition with the Viceroy, thanks to the different length of the ecclesiastical dignity of the archbishop’s bishopric compared to the reign of the Viceroy. The first mandate is often lifelong, the second only rarely is prolonged for two periods of three years.<\/p>\n

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Piazza Bologni, the Cathedral and the archbishop’s palace The Viceroy makes another stop at Piazza Bologni. The square takes its name from the family of Palermo magistrates who live there. Finally, the viceroy arrives at the cathedral (Figure 1). Nowadays it is now impossible to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11488,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6336\/revisions\/11488"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}