Palazzetto De Santis-Partini in Borgo Pio (1913-14). Reciprocity between architectural quality and
urban transform
We are dealing with a not yet well known work, located in via Porta Angelica; it’s an expression of
remarkable stylistic synthesis together with a complimentary urban transformation of the Borgo Pio
district, ended up in 1941. On the basis of unpublished drawings by Engineers Giovanni Battista Iannoni
and Ettore Graziosi between 1913-14, the study dwells upon and point out its typological and formal
peculiarities of notable originality and stylistic refinements. Not by chance, during the demolition of all
the buildings for the construction of the four new lots of the Borgo, this building was considered to be
the only emergency of architectural value to be safeguarded. It’s clear in it the will of a building project
which gives it the character of an all-Roman purism, where we can see a reinterpretation of the 17th-18th
century Late Mannerism. We have further proof of this in its proportional subtended values, even if, at
first sight it may appear, to have been formalized to a Humbertine bureaucratic.
