The Palazzo Lercari-Parodi or Palazzo Franco Lercari is a building located at number 3, Via Garibaldi in the historical centre of Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date.

It was erected from 1571 by Franco Lercari, a wealthy banker, who held the position of governor of the Genoese Republic in the 1570s and was also the patron of Villa Lercari in Sampierdarena and of the Lercari Chapel in the apse of the Cathedral of San Lorenzo. In 1586 Franco Lercari left his entire estate to Francesco Maria Imperiali of Francavilla, with the obligation of also taking the surname Lercari. The last descendant of the Imperiali Lercari family was Maria Luigia, who married the Modenese marquis Lodovico Coccapani, later Coccapani Imperiali, and brought the palace as dowry. The descendants Ercole and Lodovico Coccapani Imperiali in 1845 sold it to the banker Bartolomeo Parodi, whose family still owns it.^[1]

The palace, whose designer is unknown, differs from the buildings on Strada Nuova. The lower part of the façade is decorated with diamond-pointed ashlar, while the upper floors were originally relieved by a series of open loggias, later closed by glazing and walled up in the early Ocento, as can be seen from Rubens' engravings in the 1652 edition of Palazzi di Genova.^[2]

Also on the façade is the portal supported by two telamons with mozzi noses, the work of Taddeo Carlone, who here evokes the atrocious legend of Megollo Lercari, ancestor of the commissioner, took revenge on his enemies by mutilating their noses and ears.^[3]

• Rubens - Palazzi di Genova.
• Taddeo Carlone, entrance portal
• Lazzaro Calvi, Challenge between Horatii and Curiatii
• Bust of Antonia De Marini, by Taddeo Carlone
• Gigantomachia by Ottavio Semino
• Luca Cambiaso, The enterprise of Megollo Lercari in Trebizond.
• Luca Cambiaso, Stories of Niobe