Resumen de La collezione di Ascanio Pio di Savoia fra Ferrara e Roma
The Pio di Savoia as collectors have been studied in recent years only in relation to some celebrated members of the family such as Rodolfo and Cardinal Carlo Emanuele, with the aim of casting light on how the Capitoline collections were established. Until now no consideration has been given to Ascanio, the brother of Cardinal Carlo, and the discovery of unpublished archival evidence has revealed interesting aspects of his activity as collector. In particular, some of the material in the Pio Falcò archive of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan has shown that a number of the paintings and drawings housed in Ascanio´s palazzo on the Via degli Angeli in Ferrara were taken to the family´s Roman residences after his death to enrich their extensive picture gallery; his eighteenth-century descendants preserved and expanded the collection until its sale to the present-day Capitoline Museum.
