Until 1850, the palace was the seat of the Roman "Guardia civica" (in that year merged with another militia to form the Palatine Guard), thence it was named "Palazzo della Gran Guardia" [REF].
After the end of World War II, the palace hosted the headquarters of the "Confcooperative" (the union of Italian catholic cooperatives),[REF] then became for many years an hotel, the "Hotel Pensione Alicorni" [REF].