The House of Ruspoli is historically one of the great aristocratic families of Rome, but is originally from Florence. Following World War II and the fall of Fascism, the newly established Italian Republic officially abolished titles and hereditary honours in its 1946 Constitution, with the exception of the papal nobility of Rome, as those titles had been created by papal authority.
Old painting of Marius Scotus
Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, first prince of Cerveteri
The Ruspoli family in 1807
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome
Cerveteri is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, in the Italian region of Lazio. Known by the ancient Romans as Caere, and previously by the Etruscans as Caisra or Cisra, and as Agylla by the Greeks, its modern name derives from Caere Vetus used in the 13th century to distinguish it from Caere Novum.
Banditaccia Necropolis
Interior of an Etruscan tomb in the Banditaccia necropolis
Sarcophagus of the Spouses (Villa Giulia)
Sculpture from a temple at Caere, 525–500 BC (Altes Museum Berlin)