ARCHITECTS AND LANDSCAPE- 
NOLLI (PIETRO) 
XVIII Century 
Pietro Nolli is also mentioned as one of the landscape-gardeners who 
laid out the Villa Albani. 
OLIVIERI (ORAZIO) OF TIVOLI 
XVI Century 
Olivieri was employed as an engineer of the waterworks at the Villa 
d’Este at Tivoli and the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati. 
PALLADIO (ANDREA) 
i 508-1580 
Palladio, the great Venetian architect, was born at Vicenza. He 
turned the development of Italian Renaissance architecture in the 
direction of pure classicalism, and was a master of proportion in build- 
ing. At Vicenza he rebuilt the Sala della Ragione, and built the 
Palazzi Tiene and Valmarana and the Teatro Olimpico ; while the 
Villa Capra or Rotonda, near Vicenza, is his work, and also the Villa 
Giacomelli at Maser. In Venice he erected the churches of San 
Giorgio Maggiore and II Redentore, also the Villa Malcontenta near 
Fusina on the Brenta. Palladio published a “Treatise on Archi- 
tecture ” and “The Antiquities of Rome.” 
PARIGI (GIULIO) 
B. , d. 1635 
Parigi was a Florentine architect, engineer and designer. As far as is 
known, he worked entirely in Florence and its environs. He is the 
architect of the court and arcade of Poggio Imperiale, the cloister of 
S. Agostino, the Palazzo Marucelli (now Fenci), the Palazzo Scarlatti, 
and a part of the Uffizi. 
PERUZZI (BALDASSARE) 
1481-1537 
Peruzzi, who was both architect and painter, divided his time between 
Rome and Siena, where he was born. He built the Villa Vicobello 
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