From exile to nobility
At the beginning of the 14th century, a branch of the Uberti family, Florentine exiles related to the famous Farinata, mentioned in Dante's Divine Comedy, found asylum in Mantua, where they built the palace that takes their name.
The facade on Sordello Square It is the result of a sixteenth-century restoration and differs from the late Gothic style found on the facades facing Vicolo Bonacolsi, with the pointed-arch door decorated in terracotta. The building is connected to Bonacolsi Palace from a passetto, an elevated bridge that allows you to move from one building to another without having to go out onto the street. Inside, the decorations bear witness to the transformations that have taken place over time. On the main floor are frescoes dating from the late fourteenth to the seventeenth century with floral motifs, cherubs, allegorical figures, and heraldic coats of arms, along with entirely painted coffered ceilings and sixteenth-century marble fireplaces.