Aostalli

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Aostalli is the name of a well-known family of builders from Ticino , whose members were mainly active in Prague and other parts of Bohemia .

The Aostalli master builder family has been in evidence in Sala Capriasca in Ticino since the 14th century . Other spellings of the family name were: Avostalli, Avostalis, Aostalli de Sala, Austalis, Austalis de Sala, Avostalo, Vostalis ; in the Ticino documents also: Hostali, Ostali, Agostali .

Builders working in Bohemia

  • Giovanni Maria Aostalli (* after 1500; † before April 16, 1567, probably in Prague). Whose sons:
    • Agostino Aostalli (* around 1527 probably in Pambio; † 1617 ibid)
    • Andrea Maria Aostalli (* probably in Pambio); first proven in 1548 as a master in his father's group of masons at Prague Castle.
    • Pietro Aostalli (* around 1528 probably in Pambio; † between 1570 and 1576 in Prague); member of his father's bricklayer group in Prague since 1548 or earlier.
  • The following Aostallis were brothers:
    • Antonio Aostalli (* Savosa ); since 1548 member of Giovanni Maria Aostalli's Prague assembly group. On 24 September 1554 from the Roman-German king and later Emperor Ferdinand I ennobled .
    • Giovanni Battista Aostalli (around 1510–1575)
    • Francesco I. Aostalli (* probably in Savosa); member of Giovanni Maria Aostalli's assembly group since 1548. Nobilitated together with his brothers Antonio and Stefano. Perhaps returned to Ticino.
    • Stefano Aostalli (* probably in Savosa); since 1548 in the assembly of his brother Giovanni Battista Aostalli. Together with his brothers Antonio and Francesco I, he was ennobled by Ferdinand I.
  • Son of Antonio Aostalli:
    • Francesco II. Aostalli (* presumably in Savosa; † after 1591), active in Prague, possibly also as an employee of Ulrico Aostalli. Said to have built a house for Jakub Menšik von Menšstejn in Prague in 1587.
  • Probably brother-in-law of Antonio Aostalli:
    • Ulrico Aostalli (* after 1520 probably in Savosa; † May 10, 1597 in Prague)

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