Palazzo Bevilacqua-Costabili, Ferrara, Renaissance palace in central Ferrara, Italy.

Palazzo Bevilacqua-Costabili is a Renaissance palace at Via Voltapaletto 11 in central Ferrara. Its facade, attributed to Giovan Battista Aleotti, has a central portal topped by a balcony on volute brackets, with sculptures of Concordia and Verità between them. Round niches hold busts of Roman emperors and ancient philosophers, and sandstone reliefs show armour and military trophies held by lion heads. Behind the entrance hall, a five-arch loggia opens onto the courtyard.

The palace was built from 1430 for the Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini family, after Cristin Francesco Bevilacqua moved from Verona to Ferrara to marry Lucia Ariosti. Cardinal Bonifacio Bevilacqua had the facade decorated with military trophies, and in 1710 Ercole Bevilacqua added the monumental staircase. In 1830 Marquis Giovan Battista Costabili Containi bought it and moved his collection of manuscripts, books and paintings there.

The Salone degli antichi has a vaulted ceiling painted by Francesco Saraceni with the heraldic symbols of Italy's leading dynasties, among them the Este, Sforza, Scaligeri, Gonzaga and Visconti. Nearby, the Sala della mitologia shows Jupiter driving the Furies Alecto and Megera from Olympus, with Minerva at his right and Victory at his left.

The palace at Via Voltapaletto 11 has housed the Department of Economics and Management and the Economics Library of the University of Ferrara since 2006, after restoration work. It is a working academic building, so access to the frescoed rooms on the piano nobile depends on the department's opening arrangements rather than on museum visiting hours.

Over its history, the building served as a psychiatric hospital, a supermarket, and a movie theater before becoming an educational space. This series of transformations shows how a grand Renaissance structure could be adapted for completely different purposes across different eras.