public fountain was built inside the village which had also the permission to have a statute. During the pontificate of Innocenzo VIII (1482-1492), Soriano was given as perpetual vicariate to cardinal Rodrigo Borgia who, once become Pope as AlessandroVI, gave the castle to cardinal Giovan Battista Orsini. In 1497, when the Orsini family placed itself at the king of France's disposal (Charles the VIIIth) against the will of Rome, Soriano was theatre of an important open-field battle that saw the papal army defeated by the Orsini's. The were then defeated and forced to leave Soriano by Cesare Borgia, the "Valentino", in 1503.
Afterwards, the castle was given to Giulio II Della Rovere, who succeded Alessandro VI, then to his grandchildren who, in 1588 sold it to Giovanni Caraffa, nephew of Pope Paolo IV. After various events and owners, the castle was bought by the Altemps, who remained lords of the feud for 136 years, until 1715. In fact the sell of the castle and its feudal rights goes back to this date; it was sold to the Albani, who provided to finish the Papacqua Palace and restore numerous monuments. In the first half of the XIXth century, Soriano was allotted to Agostino Chigi, descendant of the Albani. In 1848 the Chigi family, even remaining owners of the Papacqua Palace, renounced to their feudal rights in favour of the Holy See. After the short Roman Republic of Mazzini (1849) and some isolated insurrectional tries, on the 12th of September 1875, Soriano was conquered by the Italian troops during their march towards Rome
