Sigismondo Chigi Albani della Rovere was fourth prince of Farnese. Marshal of the Holy Roman Church and member of Accademia litteraria Arcadia, a literary academy founded in Rome in 1690. A student of archaeology, economics and a man of letters, in 1781 he published a well-received two volume work, Economia Naturale e Politica. Chigi was a friend of Metastasio and a member of Accademia litteraria Arcadia.
Giovanni Battista Falda, Piazza Colonna (including the Chigi Palace), c1665
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Mozart probably played for Sigismondo Chigi at his palazzo in Rome (piazza Colonna), possibly in the so-called Sala d'oro, constructed in 1765-1767 to celebrate Chigi's marriage to Princess Maria Flaminia Odescalchi (1750-June 1771), a daughter of Don Livio II Odescalchi, on 20 April 1770.
- Date 1
- 1736-03-15, Rome
- Date 2
- 1793-05-23, Padua
- Bibliographic Reference
- Basso, I Mozart in Italia, 522-523