Palazzo Tasso, Medieval palace in Bergamo, Italy.

Palazzo Tasso is a 16th-century palace at Via Pignolo 80, in the lower part of Bergamo. Its slightly curved facade follows the street; the arched portal is framed in squared ashlar blocks and topped by the Tasso coat of arms, a helmeted crest with a putto holding a sword and a post horn. Three arched windows with ashlar cornices sit on the upper floor, and a courtyard with sandstone columns and cross vaults lies behind the door.

Domenico Tasso, a member of the family that ran the papal postal service, built the palace between 1480 and 1520. Pope Julius II made him count and apostolic knight in 1512, as recorded on the door's architrave. The Tasso family lived here until the late 18th century, and the building later housed private schools, including the Marchiondi women's college.

The name comes from the Tasso family of Cornello dei Tasso in Val Brembana, who grew rich through the postal service. A plaque on Via Pignolo records Torquato Tasso's two stays; the family kept him close, and he cited Bergamo in a sonnet and private letters. The garden column capital reads ELISABETH ROTA UXORIS with the Rota coat of arms.

Palazzo Tasso stands at Via Pignolo 80, in the lower part of Bergamo. The main door on Via Pignolo opens onto the inner courtyard, which has a portico on three sides with cross vaults on sandstone columns; the fourth side is the wall shared with Palazzo Bassi Rathgeb. A second, older entrance on Via Santa Elisabetta served the family's postal business, and the cellars where couriers, travellers and horses rested keep their original look.

The Tasso family ran a postal and passenger service from Bergamo to Venice with eighteen staging posts, and this palace was the fourteenth. The basement rooms, kept in their original form, lodged couriers, travellers and horses. On the garden side, a column capital carries the name of Domenico Tasso's wife, Elisabetta Rota, with her family's coat of arms.