The grand palace was commissioned towards the end of the 16th century by the brothers Scipione and Alessandro Tarasconi, on a probable project by Giovanni Francesco Testa, using part of the pre-existing 14th-century buildings, with an articulated conformation.
After the death of the architect, Giovanni Battista Magnani almost certainly succeeded him, who intervened in the important extension after 1604 of the western wing of the building and the entire southern part on the current road to Ponte Caprazucca, where the pre-existing portico was demolished.
Already around the middle of the seventeenth century, a new architect intervened, who built the characteristic spiral staircase in the southwest corner of the central courtyard and raised the windows on the outer facades of the building's highest floor, which, however, remained unfinished.
In 1857, the last Count Luigi Tarasconi, without direct descendants, named as his universal heir the Marquis Luigi Lupo Meli Lupi di Soragna, who the following year added the surname Tarasconi to his own, combining the coats of arms of the two families.
In 1860 the first branch of the Cassa di Risparmio di Parma was inaugurated in the building , later moved to the building in Piazza Garibaldi.
Between the late 19th century and early 20th century, the rear facade of the building was eventually slightly altered, opening onto the rear courtyard, and some internal changes were made.
In 2014, the Marquis Meli Lupi of Soragna Tarasconi sold the building to the entrepreneur Corrado Galloni, who began the restoration of the entire building the following year.
Source: Wikipedia