Recently restored, owned by the Municipality of Rovigo, Palazzo Angeli, certainly one of the most beautiful in Rovigo, built in 1780 by the Veronese architect Francesco Schiavi and donated to the Municipality in 1876 by Count Domenico Angeli, will become the seat of the University of Law of Ferrara. From the beginning the palace gave hospitality to illustrious personages, among them Charles IV of Spain with Maria Lusia Borbone (1815), the emperors Francis I of Austria with Carolina Augusta of Bavaria (1819), Empress Aleksandra Federowna with her daughter (1846), Francis Joseph I of Austria (1856), as the plaques on the walls remind us.
The same Giuseppe Garibaldi (in 1867), from one of the large windows, gave a speech to the crowd below, and Umberto I of Savoy (in 1882). At the end of the nineteenth century the palace was bequeathed to the Municipality of Rovigo, and at different times was used as a school, public offices, police headquarters and women’s boarding school.
