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i Pope who was elected in 1655 and died in1667. It is to this Pope that we owe the magnificentcolonnade that is built in the Piazza of St. Peter at■Rome. The House of Savelli sold Ariccia in 1661 to theChigi family. This family originally came from Sienain the time of Sixtus IV, and grew rich in… … AND COUNTRY SEATS degree that his income was estimated at seventythousand ducats, an enormous sum for that age. Heis said to have owned a hundred vessels and hadbusiness houses in Lyons, London, Constantinople,Amsterdam, and even Babylon, and so great was hisfame that throughout the East he was…
