Camillo Agrippa

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Camillo Agrippa

Camillo Agrippa (* before 1535; † around 1598) was an architect , engineer and mathematician of the Renaissance .

He came from Milan and, according to his own statements, came to Rome in 1535. At that time, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and Michelangelo were looking for a way to transport the obelisk. Agrippa had thought about this for over thirty years and published a treatise in 1583 with his proposed solution.

In 1553 he published his fencing book Trattato di scientia d'arme, con un dialogo di filosofia . After the focus of the fighting style had previously been on the blow, he concentrated on the sting. From this new technique the rapier developed , and as early as 1560 Michel de Montaigne noticed that Italy was the fencing academy in Europe. The font was reprinted in Venice in 1568 and 1604.

1574 demanded Pope Gregory XIII. the architects and engineers to submit proposals for the transport and the construction of the obelisk ( Guglia = needle) in St. Peter's Square . This was built in 1586 by Domenico Fontana .

Between 1553 and 1595 he published six writings.

Works

  • Trattato di Camillo Agrippa Milanese di trasportar la guglia in su la piazza di San Pietro ; Rome, Francesco Zanetti, 1583
  • Dialogo di Camillo Agrippa sopra la generatione de venti, baleni, tuoni, fulgori, fiumi, laghi, valli, et montagne ; Rome, 1584 ( full text on Wikisource )
  • Nvove inventioni di Camillo Agrippa Milanese sopra il modo di navigare , Rome 1595

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Evidence of the original editions in the Opac of the SBN; Digitized at WE Wilson, Elizabethan Fencing (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Agrippa, Camillo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian fencing master, architect, engineer and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH before 1535
DATE OF DEATH around 1598