Erected in 1546 by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignoli and finished inside by a pupil of Ottaviano Mascherino, the author of the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome, the building, which belonged to the Bolognese humanist Achille Bocchi (1488-1562), soon became the seat of the academy he founded. The building is characterized by a high plinth, the massive cut stone of which is located on the entrance door and on the four windows of the first floor. The sixteenth-century frescoes by Prospero Fontana have been preserved inside.→