Talk:Regina Coeli (prison)

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Errors in Article[edit]

The article entitled Regina Coeli (prison), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Coeli_(prison), contains major errors. It should be pulled and completely rewritten.

The article begins correctly by saying that the prison site was once occupied by a convent. The 2nd paragraph then says "The construction was started by Pope Urban VIII in 1642, but his death stopped the works and the complex remained unfinished."

An amazing attribution since Urban VIII had nothing to do with creating the convent except that he gave a money gift to the founder which was added to the founder's funds to pay construction costs. The convent founder was Anna Colonna Barberini, member of a wealthy and powerful aristocratic family who married into a similar family. Its construction began in 1643, not 1642, and was complete by 1654 when nuns of the order of Discalced Carmelites moved in. Anna's son completed the interior decorations not long after Anna's death in 1658, following the terms of her will.

An unprofessional feature of the Wikipedia article is that it contradicts the information in the Wikipedia page that deals with Anna Colonna. On that page, Anna's patronage of the convent is acknowledged but tepidly for a project that involved construction of a church and residence that housed nuns from the 17th to the 19th century. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Colonna

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References

^ Marilyn Dunn, “Piety and Patronage in Seicento Rome: Two Noblewomen and Their Convents," The Art Bulletin, vol. 76, no. 4 (Dec., 1994), pp. 644-663

[1] Marilyn Dunn, “Piety and Patronage in Seicento Rome: Two Noblewomen and Their Convents," The Art Bulletin, vol. 76, no. 4 (Dec., 1994), pp. 644-663

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