Sisters Agata, Benedetta and Massimilla Mongiò of San Pietro in Galatina inherited the property of this Palace as a consequence of the matrimony, celebrated on 30 March 1699, between Giovanna Mongiò and Francesco Oronzo Pantaleo of Oleastro barons from Taranto and Nardò. Giuseppe got married to Lucrezia Zacheo and lived in this Palace where, in 1742, another Francesco lived on the fourth floor. He was very poor since he drew a barely annuity of 18,. ducats.
This Palace, whose former owners we do not know, was built in the sixteenth century, the same period of the Catal-Durazzo doorway which was once festooned on the upper floor.
The balustrade, which is mounted on delicate corbels on the right corner of the front, with Baroque mullions repeated along the flight of stairs in the entrance courtyard, dates back to the first years of the eighteenth century.
The Neapolitan prince Luigi Dentice was the owner of the Palace in the first years of the nineteenth century, but he alienated the property per contract to Gaetano Palmentola, a Neapolitan merchant.
He made of the Palace his own dwelling and the site of his olive oil trade.
Later the Palace was the seat of the Consulate of Sweden and Norway kingdoms and Vincenzo, Gaetano Palmentola’s son became the holder with the permit dated 26th March 1877.
Original text – Elio Pindinelli
English translation by Rocco Merenda
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