Count Corbelli had a palace built in 1844 in the city by Pietro Marchelli who also worked on the majestic neoclassical facade with vertical partitions with pilasters and mixed capitals and six caryatids in the central elevated part. The pilasters are giant and they frame the double order of windows on the noble floor with the upper one, at the same time they give the size of the elevation that stands in symmetry to the palace; it is a rather high building that has a commercial ground floor and two other floors closed by a high and solid cornice, a fourth floor is the attic. A beautiful continuous balcony covers most of the part of the view of the noble floor on the Via Emilia. It's a monumental building that aimed to represent and sanction in the city the prestige of the client family. Noteworthy is the noble floor, recently restored, it has a series of rooms frescoed with portraits, sphinxes, grotesque and architectural backdrops. There is a cycle of dancing figures of Minghetti related as a way to those of the contemporary palace Trivelli Panciroli. The beautiful interior doors have images of Baccahantes but the composition is more structured as the two figures for shutter are contained in oval lacquer red background and then in squares with blunted corners, intermingled with hexagons with painted heads; the quality of the product is high but less refined than the palace of Corso Garibaldi. The artist also in this pictorical cycle lends himself to invent rather than to propose themes and models in vogue. Three rooms are significant in the pictorial repertoire of the palace: the first one has a monochrome decoration with angular caryatids by the hand of Pasquale Zambini who had worked in the family mansion in Rivaltella. The ceiling has a central canvas of fine workmanship that seems closer stylistycally to Alfonso Chierici, it is an oval dedicated to Diana and Endymion; also the following room dedicated to Apollo with Muse can be attributed to the same authors. The third of Rinaldo and Armida could leave to think to a student of the Minghetti. At the turn of the 1960s it became property of the Arduini family and hosted the headquarters of the Italian Socialist Party, twenty years later it was an insurance office but the ground floor is historically occupied by shops and businesses
(card edited by the architect Rosaria Petrongri, december 2011.)