page_title: Palazzo Sergardi, Siena
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Palazzo Sergardi, Siena / History
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Epigrafe commemorativa di Lodovico Sergardi, conosciuto come Quinto Settano, sulla facciata di un Palazzo di Siena in via Montanini. English: Plaque remembering Lodovico Sergardi, also known as Quinto Settano, on a palace in Siena, via Montanini. The plaque says: «These were the home walls of Lodovico Sergardi who, called himself Quinto Settano, major expert of Latin poetry, wrote satire with the strength of Juvenal with the grace of Horace».
context_page_description: The Palazzo Sergardi or Sergardi Biringucci is an 18th-century aristocratic palace located on Via Montanini #110 in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy; the palace is best known for its late 18th century Neoclassical frescoes by Luigi Ademollo.
context_section_description: The site once held a convent of the Derelitte, and various buildings were joined to construct this palace. In 1744, Fabio Sergardi commissioned a designs in a late Baroque, early Neoclassical style from the architect Paolo Posi. Posi also designed the Palazzo De Vecchi in Siena.  
  For this palace, the entrance portal has a broken pediment. The ground floor has a small theater. In addition various rooms contain frescoes depicting the Rape of the Sabines; Apollo; and The Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne, painted by Ademollo in 1794–1795.
  Two other palaces in Siena are linked to the Sergardi family are the palazzo Palazzo Fineschi Sergardi and Palazzo Bindi Sergardi.
caption: Plaque near entrance portal
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