CAMPIDOGLIO

Speranza

IT WAS INNOCENT V (Pamphili, 1644-1655) who undertook the DEFINITE ARRANGEMENT of the piazza.

INNOCENT planned for the construction of the NEW PALAZZO and to make its completion possible levied new duties and suppressed a large number of public offices so that the work could be carried on rapidly and it was finally completed by his successor, ALEXANDER VII (Chigi, 1655-1667).

It is to CLEMENT XI (Albani 1700-1721) that we owe ALESSANDRO SPECCHI's fine portico in the courtyard of the palazzo dei conservatori, in which the POPE desidered that
SEVERAL STATUES

acquired by him from the CESI collection should be housed.

Thus, about one century and a half after the beginning of the undertaking, the grand work on the SACRED HILL was brought to a close.