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. The palace is named after a 19th-century Senator during the Kingdom of Italy, Guglielmo Mengarini. The Senator commissioned the palace design from the architect

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. Mengarini's wife, the German chemist

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, animated a lively salon at this palace, hosting

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, Pietro Blaserna,

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, as well as her brother

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. It subsequently became property of Senator

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, director of

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, and after 1941, of his daughter Elena née Carandini.

References

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