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Historical, private and independent. and private Historical, www.fondazioneroma.it Telephone + 39 06 6976450 - Fax +39 06 697645300 06 +39 Fax - 6976450 06 39 + Telephone Via Marco Minghetti, 17 - 00187 Rome 00187 - 17 Minghetti, Marco Via Historical, private and independent. In the area for the Community. A unique project for Social Sustainability. The Foundation Health Scientific Research Education Art and Culture Terzo Pilastro - Italia e Mediterraneo fondazione_cofanetto_cover_fustella_eng.indd 1 29/10/15 12.13 Historical, private and independent. and private Historical, www.fondazioneroma.it Telephone + 39 06 6976450 - Fax +39 06 697645300 06 +39 Fax - 6976450 06 39 + Telephone Via Marco Minghetti, 17 - 00187 Rome 00187 - 17 Minghetti, Marco Via Historical, private and independent. In the area for the Community. A unique project for Social Sustainability. The Foundation Health Scientific Research Education Art and Culture Terzo Pilastro - Italia e Mediterraneo fondazione_cofanetto_cover_fustella_eng.indd 1 29/10/15 12.13 Contents Chiarman’s Introduction The Efficiency of Solidarity. Fondazione Roma Protagonist of the Civil Welfare Model History of Fondazione Roma Headquarters: Palazzo Sciarra The Cardinal’s Library The Mirrors Study The Art Collection The Historical Archives Palazzo Cipolla Institutional Activities Health The Hospice and the Foundation’s increasing commitment to patients affected by ALS and Alzheimer’s disease Grants for Hospitals Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital Scientific Research Support for Excellent Biomedical Research IRCCS - Fondazione Bietti for Ophthalmic Research Commitment to Scientific Research in the Pontine District Fondazione Roma Supports Socio-economic Research Education Urgent Needs in Education: Grants for Schools and Universities Postgraduate University Courses Fondazione Roma Supports Persecuted Peoples Art and Culture Fondazione Roma-Arte-Musei Museo Fondazione Roma Portraits of Poetry Commitment to Solidarity and the Mediterranean Region This book has been published by Fondazione Roma Edition not for sale Graphic design and page layout ACC & Partners Via Città della Pieve, 58 00191 Rome, ©Italy Printed by Tipografia Palombi & Lanci Via Lago di Albano, 20 Villa Adriana 00010 Tivoli - Rome, Italy November 2015 In order to fulfil legal obligations Fondazione Roma is at the disposal of any copyright holders of images who have not been traced or were impossible to contact Fondazione Roma Via Marco Minghetti, 17 00187 Rome, Italy © Fondazione Roma Introduction The Efficiency of Solidarity Fondazione Roma Protagonist of the Civil Welfare Model Italy must now reconsider the concept and limits of the welfare system and focus on an urgent transition from the Welfare State to a Civil Welfare Model, whereby the State, individuals and non-profit organizations provide social services on equal terms, in order to propose a system that leaves scope for social interaction and enables citizens to be directly involved in the management of public goods. This model is described in the book entitled Il terzo pilastro. Il non-profit motore del nuovo welfare (The third pillar. Non-profit organisations drive the new welfare system), in which I have elaborated a plan whereby the third pillar – that varied world of non-profit organizations – should become the new key element, capable of ensuring a positive solution to the crisis of the Welfare State. Fondazione Roma is playing an essential role in this respect. Literally interpreting the spirit of the Reforms, introduced by Giuliano Amato and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, which created banking foundations, Fondazione Roma was the first to end its relationship with the transferee bank (2002). Unlike most of the other foundations, Fondazione Roma has avoided debt and useless capital increases issued for the purpose of maintaining a controlling interest in the banks. The Foundation has instead concentrated all its energy and resources in philanthropic activities and becoming a proactive think tank focused on the issues that question the future of Italy and the global society. An institution with a long and stable tradition, original expression of the civil society’s independency and spirit of initiative, Fondazione Roma is the largest foundation in Italy with a membership. All the institutional activities performed by the Foundation, which constantly updates its grant issuing procedure and operational structure, have the sole purpose of supporting the development of the local area in sectors that are strategic to social progress such as Health, Scientific Research, Education, Art and Culture and Aid to the Undeprivileged. We are proudly certain to be on the right track and to have met many challenges and that we shall reach new goals in the future by pursuing and accomplishing a concrete and constructive project for social sustainability. Professor Emmanuele F. M. Emanuele Chairman of Fondazione Roma The Foundation The History of Fondazione Roma The history of Fondazione Roma dates back to 1539 when, in order to fight usury, Pope Paul III issued an Edict establishing the pawn-broking institution ‘Mount of Piety of Rome’. The mission was perpetuated through a Rescript issued in 1836 by Pope Gregory XVI, in response to an initiative of worthy citizens, which instituted the savings bank called Cassa di Risparmio di Roma that incorporated the Mount of Piety in 1937. The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Roma was established, inheriting the savings bank’s original social benefit goals, when the reform, introduced by Mr Giuliano Amato, was enacted in the early nineteen nineties. In order to emphasise the new identity arising from the separation of the banking business from philanthropic activities, in 2007 the Foundation’s name became Fondazione Roma. Hence, Fondazione Roma is the last episode in five hundred years of history during which it has been transformed and modernised adapting its projects to the new socio-economic context. The Chairman’s strategic decision to accomplish stable and structured projects and to concentrate resources in the five traditional and more relevant sectors of Health, Scientific Research, Education, Art and Culture and Aid to the Underprivileged, favouring innovative approaches and procedures in order to find practical solutions to the true needs of the local community, proves the Foundation’s ability to establish a best practice model, which may be replicated and sustained in other contexts. The first Foundation of banking origin to have left the sector, as planned by the legislator, Fondazione Roma manages its assets in a prudential manner for the purpose of meeting the objectives of protecting the real value of its capital and income, which enables it to constantly issue grants in support of the local area. The Foundation The Headquarters: Palazzo Sciarra The headquarters of Fondazione Roma are situated in the historical building named Palazzo Sciarra, which overlooks the Via del Corso in the centre of Rome where some of the most ancient churches stood during early Christianity and important patrician mansions were built as from the XV century. In the second half of the sixteenth century the Sciarra branch of the Colonna family, that held the Principality of Carbognano, built the Palace on the site where the Colonnas owned two separate buildings called, respectively, the ‘Palazzo imperfetto’ and the ‘Palazzetto’, which the Milanese architect, Flaminio Ponzio, planned to be joined in 1610. In 1641, Orazio Torrioni took over the direction of the building site and created the noble and austere façade squared with ashlar angles, crowned with cornice on corbels and divided by three orders of windows. The monumental portal has two fluted columns surmounted by composite capitals on high plinths, which support the balustraded balcony on the first floor, placed in front of an ashlar arch. The face of the plinths and the balustrade are enriched with columns sculptured in relief in remembrance of the relationship between Sciarra family and the prestigious Colonna dynasty. Due to the beauty of the portal, the Palace was included amongst the ‘Four Wonders of Rome’ together with the Borghese cembalo (harpsichord), the Farnese cube and the Caetani-Ruspoli staircase. During the eighteenth century, Cardinal Prospero Colonna adapted the Palace to the style of the period. Luigi Vanvitelli, architect and friend of the cardinal, was involved in the architectural and pictorial renovation and designed the refurbishment. The Cardinal’s Library, the small Gallery and the Mirrors Study, rich in pictorial decorations, are some of the rooms that were created during the refurbishment, increasing the historical and artistic value of the Palace. In the late nineteenth century, Francesco Settimi attended to the restoration of the surrounding buildings, the extension of the right wing and reconstruction of the courtyard. The size of the Palace was considerably reduced between 1871 and 1898, when Prince Maffeo Sciarra commissioned the architect Giulio de Angelis to open the adjacent Via Minghetti and to build the Quirino theatre and the Sciarra Gallery in the rear of the complex. The Foundation The Cardinal’s Library The Cardinal’s Library is to be found inside a large apartment, which Cardinal Prospero Colonna di Sciarra (1707 – 1765) required to be located on the second floor of the building. Like the Mirrors Study, to which it communicates through a small hallway, the Library’s original eighteenth century fittings are still intact. The Cardinal commissioned the works
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