“It was in a horrible state of decay,” said Prof Pozzi, a descendant of the Cesarini and Colonna dynasties who teaches at La Sapienza University in Rome. “The frescoes had not been cleaned for 60 or 70 years. There was a lot of damp.”
The castle dates to the 10th century but was enlarged in the 1530s by a leading Renaissance military strategist and remodelled to resemble the shape of a scorpion.
In the 1950s it was owned by Crosby, a notorious libertine from New York who… (View original article)