Pietro Camporesi, the Younger. — Architect, born in Rome on 22 May 1792 and died there in 1873. He belonged to a notable family of Roman architects active between the mid-17th and the end of the 19th centuries. He was in fact the son of Giulio C. (1754–84), who in turn was the brother of Giuseppe C. (1763–1822). Pietro C., the Elder (1726–81), was his grandfather. The C. family was responsible for numerous ecclesiastical buildings in Rome and Lazio.
Pietro C., the Younger, began his career as an assistant to P. Belli and P. Bosio in the reconstruction of S. Paolo fuori le mura (1823–29); the restoration of SS. Vito e Modesto dates to 1832. His finest works are the so-called Portico di Vejo in Piazza Colonna, built as the seat of the Pontifical Post Office, elegant and characteristic, and the façade of the Ospedale di S. Giacomo (1831–46), simple, correct, and majestic. He also designed the two buildings on Via Ripetta arranged in a horseshoe shape, which house the Accademia di Belle Arti; in 1869 he began the church of S. Tommaso di Canterbury in Via Monserrato, completed by A. Poletti and V. BISIGNANO.
Camporesi was a mediocre architect whose style wavered between academic purism and a freer, more classical inspiration.