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Description: The reading room of the Antico Palazzo Rospgiliosi was formerly the living room of this prestigious former Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi's house and no doubt the place where, as a famous librettist of the day, penned the famous Opera Sant'Alessio with music by Stefano Landi. Look around any you will see some of his works together with scientific journals and other literary periodicals of the time... there are even a couple of scientific instruments belonging to another former resident Giovanni Giustino Ciampini who wrote the first ever Italian scientific journal the "Giornale de' Letterati" whilst living in the Antico Palazzo Rospigliosi. The reading room is now on the first floor of the building because In 1870 the road directly in front of the hotel was lowered by 4 meters. The main entrance of the hotel and stair case is the newest part of the property having been added only 135 years ago.