GARDENERS MENTIONED 
MARCHIONNE (CARLO) 
i 704-1 780 
Marchionne was the architect of the Villa Albani near Rome, built 
in 1746. 
MICHELANGELO (SIMONE BUONARROTI) 
1475-1564 
The great architect, sculptor and painter, was born in Florence, where 
he built the Laurentian Library and the chapel of S. Lorenzo, with 
the cupola of the sacristy. In Rome he built the Palazzo de’ Con- 
servatorii on the Capitoline hill, the cornice of the Palazzo Farnese, 
the Porta del Popolo and the Porta Pia. His model for the dome of 
St. Peter’s was carried out except as to the lantern. Tradition assigns 
to him the Villa ai Collazzi (now Bombicci) near Florence. 
MONTORSOLI (FRA GIOVANNI ANGELO) 
1507-1563 
Fra Giovanni Montorsoli, a Florentine monk of the Servite Order, was 
a sculptor, and studied under Michelangelo. He was early called to 
Genoa, where he decorated the church of San Matteo (the church of 
the Doria family) and built the famous villa in the harbour for the 
Admiral Andrea Doria. The Villa Imperiali, at San Fruttuoso, near 
Genoa, is also attributed to Montorsoli. One of his best works is the 
high altar in the church of the Servi at Bologna. 
MOORE (JACOB) 
1740-1793 
Moore, a Scotch landscape-painter — known as ‘'Moore of Rome” — 
was patronized by Prince Borghese, and remodelled the grounds of 
the Villa Borghese in the style of the jardin anglais. 
MORA 
XVII Century 
A Roman engineer of the name built some of the waterworks on the 
Isola Bella, near Como, in the seventeenth century. 
NOLLI (ANTONIO) 
XVIII Century 
Nolli laid out the grounds of the Villa Albani near Rome, in 1746. 
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