Bandinelli Palace (; ; ) is a late

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( kamienica) facing

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. It was built in 1589 by a pharmacist Jarosz Wedelski, and in 1634 it was bought by a Florentine merchant,

Roberto Bandinelli Roberto Bandinelli (, died 1650) was a Florentine merchant and postmaster of Lviv (Lwów) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was a competitor to the postal service run by the Montelupi family since Sebastiano Montelupi had been appointed ...

, known as the founder of the first

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in eastern Galicia. That office was housed in the building from 1629 onward, and was closed in a few years when the business became unprofitable. During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), a mint operated in the courtyard of the tenement house, which was moved from Kraków during the war. The house was considerably renovated in 1737-1739. In the 19th century the palace was used as a

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and a meeting place for the local

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. Poet

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lodged here. The Soviet authorities gave the house to the which had the building thoroughly repaired and restored.

References

* Вуйцик В. С., Липка Р. М. Зустріч зі Львовом. Львів: Каменяр, 1987. С. 47-48. * Лемко Ілько. Палац Бандінеллі.

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