The complex of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza which is located in the Roman neighbourhood of Sant’Eustachio and today houses the Archivio di Stato di Roma, takes its name from the church dedicated to the French saint Ivo Hélory. The church, designed in the second half of the 17th century by Francesco Borromini (who was born in the modern-day Swiss canton of Ticino), stands inside the Palazzo della Sapienza which served as the University of Rome from the 15th century to the 1930s when it was moved to the purpose-built Città Universitaria adjacent to the neighbourhood of San Lorenzo.
Renovation on the Studium Urbis began towards the end of the 1500s with work by Giacomo della Porta for Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585) and continued into the following century, when the great Sala Alessandrina whose name derives from Pope Alexander VII (1655-1667) was built on the eastern side of the church. The Palazzo features an exemplary Renaissance courtyard with three cloistered sides with two orders of arches.
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