Zanobi del Rosso

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The coffee house in the Boboli Gardens

Zanobi Filippo del Rosso (also: Rossi ) (* December 16, 1724 in Florence ; † January 28, 1798 ibid) was an Italian architect of the late Baroque and Rococo as well as a poet.

Del Rosso was born in the Santa Maria Novella neighborhood of Florence, the son of an architect. In 1749 he was accepted as a student at the Florentine Accademia del disegno , but soon afterwards went to Rome, where he stayed for about twelve years.

His masters in Rome included Luigi Vanvitelli and Ferdinando Fuga . As an architect he carried out some less important works and also appeared as a man of letters. Under the pseudonym Ofilio Maratonio he was a member of the Arcadia Academy of Poets . He published a two-volume erotic work Dell'arte d'amare and Del rimedio dell'amore , which was popular in a certain section of Rome's society in the second half of the 18th century.

During his stay in Rome, Del Rosso married the painter Francesca Stradetti from Prato, who was a member of the Academy of Arcadians under the poet name Laurinda Corintia. With her he had a son Giuseppe (1760-1831), who also became an architect.

In 1765 he returned to Florence, where he devoted himself entirely to architecture. He carried out the redesign of the Church of S. Margherita de 'Ricci (1769) and in 1776 repaired the central part of the Duomo of Florence damaged by a lightning strike. One of his best-known works is the coffee house in the Boboli Gardens , which was commissioned by the Habsburg Grand Duke Peter Leopold from 1775 to 1776 in an orientalizing rococo style .

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SURNAME Rosso, Zanobi del
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosso, Zanobi Filippo del (full name); Rossi, Zanobi del
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect and poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1798
Place of death Florence