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Biography

Italian architect and theorist. He was accepted as a Theatine novice in , spent his novitiate at the monastery of San Silvestro al Quirinale in Rome, and returned to Modena in , where he was ordained in He became provost in He left Modena and became a member of the Theatine House of Parma in and apparently visited Prague and Lisbon before publishing his play La Pieta trionfante in Messina in , where he was a lecturer in mathematics.

He wrote four mathematical books in both Latin and Italian, of which Euclides adauctus is a work on descriptive geometry.

In , he published a mathematical-philosophical tract Placita Philosophica defending the geocentric universe against Copernicus and Galileo.

He designed a large number of public and private buildings in Turin, including the palaces of the Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, the Royal Church of San Lorenzo, most of the Chapel of the Holy Shroud (housing the Shroud of Turin; begun in by Amedeo di Castellamonte), the Pal