The Palace Filomarino is an historic palace in Naples, located at number 12 Via Benedetto Croce; inhabited for centuries by important local noble families, it became the residence of the philosopher Benedetto Croce until his death in 1952. Today it houses the Italian Institute for Historical Studies and the Library Foundation Benedetto Croce.
The construction of the building is attributed to Giovanni Francesco di Palma, student and son of the architect John Donadio, nicknamed Mormando . The palace Sanseverinoof Bisignano, then nicknamed Filomarino, stands on the site where a house of Giovannello Brancaccio built in the fifteenth century. It is difficult to establish exactly when the house has come into possession of the family of Bisignano Sanseverino.
In the first half of eight hundreds the Rocca family became extinct with the death of Prince James, to his death in 1840, the building had already been divided among several owners. Then Benedetto Croce purchased the second floor of the building. The Neapolitan philosopher held some dissertations on his doctrine in the home of the Prince Rocca , as he himself points out in the note of universal law, dedicated to Filomarino. Here - in 1946 - Croce founded the Italian Institute for Historical Studies in an apartment adjacent to his staff, which closed its existence November 20, 1952.